PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



quae sunt candidae ungues vocantur. in flore aliud 

 est semen, aliud capillus, in capite aliud cortex, aliud 

 calix. folium siccatur aut tribus modis exprimitur ; 

 per se, cum ungues non detrahuntur — ibi enim umoris 

 plurimum — aut cum detractis unguibus reliqua pars 

 aut oleo aut vino maceratur in sole vasis vitreis. 



122 quidam et salem admiscent, nonnulli et anchusam 

 aut aspalathum aut iuncum odoratum, quia talis 

 maxime prodest vulvae ac dysintericis. expri- 

 muntur eadem folia detractis unguibus trita per 

 Hnteum spissum in aereum vas, lenique igni sucus 

 coquitur, donec fiat crassitudo mellis. ad haec 

 ehgi oportet odoratissima quaeque foUa. vinum 



123 quomodo fieret e rosa diximus inter genera vini. 

 usus suci ad aures, oris ulcera, gingivas, tonsillas 

 gargarizati, stomachum, ^ulvas, sedis vitia, capitis 

 dolores — in febri per se vel cum aceto — somnos, 

 nausias. foha uruntur in calUblepharum, et siccis 

 femina adsperguntur. epiphoras quoque arida le- 

 niunt. flos somnum facit, inhibet fluctiones mu- 

 Herum, maxime albas, in posca potus et sanguinis 

 excreationes, stomachi quoque dolores cyathus ^ in 



^ cyathus Deilefsen : quantum aul tantum codd. Fortasse 

 paulum. 



" From the white at the base of the human nail. 



* For coriex see §§ 14 and 20. By semen Pliny surely means 

 pollen. 



' In this chapter Pliny has many details found in Dios- 

 corides I. 99, but adds others. Dioscorides gives one method 

 only of extracting the juice, apparently the third, but states 

 fewer particulars than Pliny. 



<« See XIV. § 106. ^ 



' Kaierai Se Kai eij to. KaXXL^Xe<f>apa. Diosc. 



^ irjpa 8e Aeta rrapafjirjpiois rrpocnTaaaeTai. Diosc. 



» This emendation of Detlefsen is probably right, although 

 Mayhoffs suggested alteration to cyaiho is attractive. The 

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