PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



celebri Pollionis Romili exemplo. centensimum 

 annum excedentem eum divus Augustus hospes 

 interrogavit. quanam maxime ratione vigorem illum 

 animi corporisque custodisset. at ille respondit : 

 intus mulso, foris oleo. \'arro regium cognominaturn 

 arquatorum morbum tradit, quoniam mulso curetur. 



115 LlV. Melitites quo fieret modo ex musto et meile 

 docuimus in ratione vini. saeculis iam fieri non 

 arbitror hoc genus inflationibus obnoxium. solebat 

 tamen inveteratum alvi causa dari in febre, item 

 articulario morbo et nervorum infirmitate laboran- 

 tibus et mulieribus vini abstemiis. 



116 LV. Mellis naturae adnexa cera est, de cuius 

 origine, bonitate, nationibus suis locis diximus. 

 omnis autem mollit. calfacit, explet corpora, recens 

 melior. datur in sorbitione dvsintericis, favique ipsi 

 in pulte alicae prius tostae. adversatur lactis 

 naturae, ac milii magnitudine decem grana cerae 

 hausta non patiuntur coagulari lact in stomacho. si 

 inguen tumeat, albam ceram in pube fixisse remedio 

 est. 



" Or (possibly) " guest." 



* Jaundice was so called from the dlscoloration of the 

 eyes and of the skin caused by the disease. 



"^ Cf. Celsus III. 24 (end), who suggests that the name 

 regi"s morbus was given because of the sumptuous nature of 

 the treatment usuaUy adopted. 



^ See XIV. § 85. 



* Dioscorides V. 7 says : SiSotcu ij.kv iv xpovioi.^ nvpeTois 

 Tois daOevTJ 'Crovy OTOfiaxov €;)fov(7tv . . . )(pijaip.os Be kcu. 

 Yvvaifiv vSpoTTOTovaai^. There is no variation in the MSS, 

 and it would be wrong to emend inveteratuni {sc. genus) to 

 inveterata, for the order of words is against its agreeing with 

 Jehre. 



