BOOK I 



of salt 120 ; froth of salt ; flower of salt 20 ; brine 

 2 ; fish-sauce 15 ; pickle 15 ; fish-brine 8 ; nature 

 of salt. (xlvi f.) Native soda, kinds of, prepara- 

 tions and drugs from — 221 observations ; sponges, 

 92 drugs from and observations — Total 924 drugs, 

 investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Marcus Varro, Cassius of Parma, 

 Cicero, Mucianus, Caelius, Celsus, Trogus, Ovid, 

 Polybius,Sornatius. Foreign authorities : Callimachus, 

 Ctesias, Eudicus, Theophrastus, Eudoxus, Theopom- 

 pus, Polyclitus, Juba, Lycus, Apion, Epigenes, 

 Pelops, Apelles, Democritus, Thrasyllus, Nicander, 

 comedies of Menander, Attalus, SaUustius, Dionysius, 

 Andreas, Niceratus, Hippocrates, Anaxilaus. 



Book XXXII. Contents — drugs from aquatic 

 animals. (i-iv) Nature's supreme force in antipathy. 

 The sucking-fish, 2 cases ; the electric ray, 7 cases; 

 the sea-hare, 5 cases; marvels of the Red Sea. 

 (v-ix) Intellect of fishes ; remarkable properties of 

 fishes ; places where oracles are given from fishes, 

 where fishes eat out of the hand, where they recognize 

 the voice, where they are bitter, where salt, where 

 sweet, where not dumb ; their sympathy and also 

 antipathy for locaUties. (x) Sea-fish when first used 

 by the Roman nation. King Numa's regulation as to 

 fish. (xi) Coral, drugs from and observations as to, 

 66. (xii) Discord between marine animals : sting-ray 

 9, dog-fish, mullet 15. (xiii-xx) Amphibious animals : 

 beaver-castors, drugs from and observations as to, 

 56 ; tortoise, drugs and observations 66 ; gilt-bream 

 4, star-fish 7, sea-snake 3, salt fish 25, sardines 1, 

 tunnies, sea-frog 6, river-frog 52, bramble-toad ; 

 observations about them 32 ; water-snake 6, river- 

 crabs 14, sea-crabs 7, river-snails 7, crow-fish 4, pig- 



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