PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



inlinuntur, adversus eruptiones, panos cum aceto. 



10 nucleus commanducatus dentium dolorem sedat, item 

 intertrigines et ambusta. inmaturae ex his ex 

 aceto potae lienem consumunt. eaedem crematae 

 et aceto salso extinctae menses sistunt vulvasque 

 procidentes fotu. omnis capillos denigrat.^ 



11 VI. Viscum e robore praecipuum diximus haberi, 

 et quo conficeretur modo. quidam contusum in aqua 

 decocunt,^ donec nihil innatet. quidam comman- 

 ducantes acinos expuunt cortices. optimum quod 

 sine cortice quodque levissimum, extra fulvum, intus 

 porraceum. nihil est glutinosius. emollit, discutit 

 tumores, siccat strumas. cum resina et cera panos 



12 mitigat omnis generis. quidam et galbanum adiciunt 

 pari pondere singulorum, eoque modo et ad vulnera 

 utuntur. unguium scabritias expolit, si septenis 

 diebus solvantur ^ nitroque conluantur. quidam id 

 religione efficacius fieri putant prima luna coUectum 

 e robore sine ferro, si terram non attigerit,comitiahbus 



^ denigrat VEX, Mayhojf : denigrant dT vnlg., Deilejsen. 

 ^ Nvm decocunt posl. innatet transponendum ? 

 ^ solvantur codd. : illinantur coni. Maylwff, qui conferl Dios- 

 cor. III. 89 et Plin. XX. §§ 39. 93, 101. 103. XXI. § 142. 



<• See XVI. §§ 30 and 245-248. Viscum is used of the plant, 

 of the berries, and also of the birdlime made from these. See 

 XVI. § 248, viscum fit ex acinis. 



' Dioscorides III. 89 : KOTTTerai Se o Kapnos, elra TrXvverai, 

 eiTa eiperai ev uSarf evioi 8e ixaowfievoL avTov epyd^ovrai., " the 

 fruitis crushed, then washed, then boiled in water; some work 

 it up by chewing." This is clear sense, but Pliny's text scarce- 

 ly agrees with it. There is nothing in Pliny to correspond to 

 TrXvveTai OT epydCovTai, and nothing in Dioscorides to correspond 

 to donec nihil innaiet and expuunt cortices. It is possible that 

 donec nihil innatet should be transposed : " crushed in water 



