BOOK I 



fish 2, sea-calf 10, lamprey 1, sea-horse 9, sea-urchins 



11. (xxi-xxx) Shellfish : kinds, observations and drugs 

 59, purple dye 9 ; seaweed 2, sea-mouse 2, sea-scorpion 



12, leeches 6, purple-fishes 13, mussels 5, fishes' fat 2, 

 callyonymi 3, crow-fish's gall 1, cuttle-fish 24, huso 

 sturgeon 5, batia 1, bacchus or myxon 2, sea-lice 2, 

 sea-bitch 4, seal 1, dolphin 9, sea-snail or murex 3, 

 sea-foara 7, tunny 5, maena 13, scolopendra 2, hzard 1, 

 conchis 1, sheat-fish 15, sea-snail or longmussel 6, 

 sponge 5. (xxxi lii) Sea-cabbage 1 , myax mussel 25, 

 sea-mussels 8, giant mussels 1, seriphus fish 2, sea- 

 muUet 2, sole-fish 1, turbot 1, blendia 1, sea-nettle 7, 

 sea-lung 6, scallops 4; from the water-snake 4, frora 

 the water-serpent 1, mullet 1, from the young tunny 

 4, grayUng 1, perch 4, from the skate 3, zmarides 3, 

 conger 1, beaver 4, moss 1, haddock 1, phager 1, 

 from the whale 1, polypus 1, shad 1, blue-fish 1, 

 rudd 1, sea-grape 1, eel 1, river-horse 1, crocodile 1, 

 adarca or sea-foam 3, rush 8. (hii) Names of all 

 animals Uving in the sea 176. — Total : 990 drugs, 

 investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Licinius Macer, Trebius Niger, 

 Sextius Niger (Greek writings of), the poet Ovid, 

 Cassius Hemina, Maecenas, lacchus, Sornatius. 

 Foreign authorities : Juba, Andreas, Salpes, Apion, 

 Pelops, Apelles, Thrasyllus, Nicander. 



Book XXXIII. Contents : the properties of the 

 metals. (ii-xii) Gold, what first caused it to be 

 valued; origin of gold rings ; limited amount of gold 

 among the ancients ; the equestrian order, its right 

 of wearing gold rings; its panels of judges; how 



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