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ifits root be used to rub thcm with, ;ind thirst is not 

 felt by those who put the seed under their tongue ; 

 that this kind too is chewed, and botii kinds preserved 

 as well. Crateuas has mentioned a third kind also, 

 with longer and more hairy leaves and the smell of 

 cypress, as growing chiefly under ivy and being good 

 for opisthotonic tetanus and cramp, tlie dose being 

 three oboli to a sextarius of water. 



XXXIV. There are two kinds" of acanthus, a plant Acamhns. 

 of the ornamental garden and of the city, which has 



a broad, long leaf, and covers the banks of borders 

 and the flat tops of the raised portions of gardens.* 

 One is thorny and curled, which is the shorter ; the 

 other is smooth, and is called by some paedcros, 

 by others melamphyllum. Its roots are wonder- 

 fully good for burns, sprains, ruptm-es, convulsions, 

 and those threatened with consumption ; for which 

 reason they are boiled for food, mostly in barley 

 water." For gouty limbs too tliey are appHed, 

 pounded and hot.'' 



XXXV. Bupleuron is considered by the Greeks to Bupieuron. 

 be among the vegetables growing wild. It has a 



stem a cubit high, many and long leaves, and the 

 head of dilL Hippocrates recommends it as a food, 

 Glauco and Nicander * as a medicine. Its seed coun- 

 teracts the poison of serpents. The leaves or the 

 juice thev apply in wine for the removal of the after- 

 birth, and the leaves with salt and wine for scrofulous 

 swellings. Its root is given in wine for snake bites 

 and as a diuretic. 



' Perhaps it is best to take ciho as dative and add e before 

 tisann; to take ci6o as ablative gives a harsli coiistiuction. For 

 the dative compare Pliny's use ofpotiii " for drink " (§ 49, e.g). 



^ The emendation of J. Mtiller means " in hot fomentations 

 with salt." ' Theriam 586. 



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