PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



aceto consparsum, ita ut bini cvathi in tepida aqua 

 bibantur utque qui biberit in lienem iaceat. clavi- 

 culae ipsae quibus repunt vites tritae ex aqua potae 



6 sistunt vomitionum consuetudinem. cinis vitium 

 cum axungia vetere contra tumores proficit, fistulas 

 purgat, mox et persanat, nervorum dolores frigore 

 ortos contractionesque, contusas vero partes vel 

 cum oleo, carnes excrescentes in ossibus cum aceto 

 et nitro, scorpionum et canum plagas cum oleo. 

 corticis per se cinis conbustis pilos reddit.^ 



7 IV^ Omphacium qua fieret ratione incipientis 

 uvae pubertate in unguentorum loco docuimus. 

 nunc ad medicinam de eo pertinentia indicabimus. 

 sanat et quae in umore sint ulcera, ut oris, ton- 

 sillarum, genitalium. oculorum claritati plurimum 

 confert, scabritiae genarum ulceribusque angulorum, 

 nubeculis, ulceribus quacumque in parte manantibus, 

 cicatricibus marcidis, ossibus purulente Hmosis.^ 

 mitigatur vehementia eius melle aut passo. prodest 

 et dvsintericis, sanguinem excreantibus, anginis. 



1 combustis pilos reddit codd. et editores : combusti pilos 

 radit Frokner. 



* ossibus codd. : auribus Sillig post Hard. collato Dioecoride. 



" Fr6hner's emendation would mean : " the ash of the 

 bumt bark bv itself acts as a depilatorv." 



* See XII. *§ 130. 



" We must remember that the Romans knew nothing of 

 spectacles or other means of rectifying poor sight. Hence 

 their fondness for eye-salves. 



"* It seems impossible to see what diseased states are referred 

 to by the words cicalricibvs marcidis, ossibvs purulente limosis. 

 Marcidus, withered (decayed, shrunk), is not an appropriate 

 adjective for a sc^r. Forcellini, perhaps in reference to this 



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