LIBER XXIIT 



I. Peracta cereaiiurn in rnedendo quoque natura 

 est ornniurnque quae ciborum aut florurn odorurnvc 

 gratia proveniunt supina tellure. non cessit his 

 Pomona partesque ^ medicas et pendentibus dedit, 

 non contenta protegere arborurnque umbra alere 

 quae diximus, immo veluti indignata plus auxilii 

 inesse his quae longius a caelo abessent quaeque 

 postea coepissent, primum enim homini cibum 

 fuisse inde et sic inducto caelurn spectare pascique 

 2 et nunc ex se posse sine frugibus. II. ergo, 

 Hercule, artes in primis dedit vitibus, non contenta 

 delicias etiam et odores atque unguenta omphacio 

 et oenanthe ac massari, quae suis locis diximus, 

 noljiliter instruxisse. plurimum, inquit, homini 

 voluptatis ex me est; ego sucurn vini, liquorem olei 

 gigno, ego palmas et poma totque varietates, neque 

 ut Tellus omnia per labores, aranda tauris, terenda 

 areis, deinde saxis, ut — quando quantove opere ? — 



^ partesque codd : artesque coni. ilayhoff. 



" Mayhoff'8 conjecture artesque, for jMrlesqve w attractive, 

 but f/irlti mjpAir/iK can well mean " a part t-o play m medicine." 



* Omphaeium was the juice of the unripe grape. See XII. 

 § 1.31 and Dioscoridea V. 5 (xi'^''j? o/x<ia/cos;. 



' Thi.s is defined by Pliny (XII. § 1.32^ as vilin Idtjruficae, uva 

 and by Dioscorides (V. .5; as o ttjj ayplas d^TreAou Kafmo^. 



^ Said liy Pliny (XII. § 133/ to be the African variety of 

 oenanthe, and to be used only in medicine. 



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