PLINY . NATURAL HISTORY 



oleo, punici mali calyce, aurium morbis praesidium 

 est. haec omnia ex albo. Cleemporus nigro pro- 

 hibet vesci ut morbos faciente, de albo consentiens. 

 Agathocles etiam contra sanguinem tauri demonstrat 

 sucum eius, refrigeratoriam tamen vim esse convenit 

 nigro et hac causa inponendum cum polenta. Zenon 

 radicem albi in stranguria suadet. 

 91 XLV. Condrion sive condrille folia habet intubi, 

 circumrosis similia, caulem minus pedalem, suco 

 madentem amaro, radice fabae simili, aliquando 

 numerosa. habet proximam terrae masticen tuber 

 culo fabae, quae adposita feminarum meuses trahere 

 dicitur. tusa cum radicibus tota dividitur in pastillos 

 contra serpentes argumento probabili, siquidem 

 mures agrestes laesi ab his hanc esse dicuntur. 

 sucus ex vino coctae alvum sistit. eadem palpe- 

 brarum pilos inordinatissumos pro cummi efficacis- 

 sime regit. Dorotheus stomacho et concoctionibus 

 utilem carminibus suis pronuntiavit. alioqui feminis 

 et oculis generationique virorum contrariam putavere. 



" Buirs blood was used in prescriptions (XXVIII. §§ 177, 

 217, 220, 241 j, sometimes with (real or imagiuaryj serious 

 consequences. Remedies are given for poLsoning from its 

 use in XX. §§ 25, 94; XXII. § 90; XXIII. § 128; XXVIII. 

 § 102; XXXI. § 120. 



* This form of the name, supported by all the ilSS., is not 

 in the dictionaries. 



' That this is the meaning of the strange tuherculo fahae 

 is clear from Dioscorides II. 133, fxeyeOei Kva[iiaTa, d rti/a 

 npoaredevra . . . e^fiTjva ayei. 



"* It is uncertain whether this refers to all the plant {lota, 

 sc. herba or condrille) or to ali the madice. The former alter- 



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