BOOK XXin. Lxv. 131-LXV11. 132 



and small black seed. Pounded and added to Attic 

 honey this seed cures fluxes of the eyes, the 

 proportions being two cyathi to four drachmae of 

 Attic honey. When broken this plant distils much 

 sweet milk, which with the addition of a httle soda 

 is very beneficial for ear-ache." The leaves are an 

 antidote to poisons. 



LXVI. The leaves of the plum boiled in wine are Piums. 

 good for tonsils, gums and uvula, the mouth being 

 rinsed with this decoction occasionally.'' The fruit 

 by itself relaxes the bowels, but is not very good for 

 the stomach, though its effects are transitory. 



LXVII. Peaches are more wholesome, and so is P^aches. 

 their juice, which is also squ6ezed out and taken in 

 wine or vinegar. No other food is more harmless 

 than this fruit ; nowhere do we find less smell or more 

 juice, though the latter tends to create thirst. Peach 

 leaves pounded and applied arrest haemorrhage. 

 Peach kernels mixed with oil and vinegar make an 

 appHcation good for headache. 



came from Dioscorides. See IV. 141 (Wellman) : tovtov 6 

 KapTTOs SpaxfJ-iov Sveiv irXrjOos myds irpos /xeAtToy TTXijdos Spaxp-oJV 

 Teaodpcov eyxpi-op-evos pevfiaTa 6(f>daXfx<j)v ujTrjaiv. 6 Be x^^o^ 



aVTOS TTOVOV TTaVfL pLtTa OilOV aTTVpOV Kal VlTpOV ivaTat,6[X€VOS . 



^ Dioscorides I. 121 : to Se a(}>iipr]p,a twv <f)vXXwv iv oivai 

 aK€va^6fi€vov Kai avayapyapil^6iJ,€vov KiovLba Kal ovXa Kal 

 napLa9p.La p€VfiaTLl^6u.€va OTeXXeL (of the KOKKVixrjXea). This 

 supports my reading as against Mayhoffs, founded on 

 Gargilius, but the parallel is not very close. Gargilius has 

 (ex oleribus et pomis XLVI de pruno p. 192 Rose) : aqua in 

 qua pruni folia decocta sunt gingivas et uvam itemque tonsillas ab 

 omni querela ore conluendo defendit, sed in vino decocta vehemen- 

 tius prosunt. I prefer my reading to Mayhoff 's on two grounds : 

 (1) it is closer to the words of Dioscorides ; (2) vehemenlius is 

 more likely to have been added by GargiHus than omitted by a 

 scribe. 



