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testicles ; applied in vinegar they turn the hair black." 

 The same, pounded with twice the quantity of soft 

 bread and kneaded in Amminean ^ wine, soothe 

 pains in the feet and sinews. The globules on this 

 tree are taken in drink for snake bites or for the 

 bringing up of blood, and used as an application for 

 gatherings. Gathered while soft, and pounded with 

 axle-grease and bean meal, they are also good for 

 hernia. For the same purpose they are taken in 

 drink. Mixed with meal they are appHed to parotid 

 tumours and to scrofulous sores. Pounded with the 

 seed these globules yield a juice, which mixed with 

 oil takes away films on the eyes. Taken too in doses 

 of one victoriatus in wine and used as an ointment 

 with a rich dried fig, from which the seeds have been 

 rernoved, it cures alFections of the testicles, disperses 

 tumours, and with leaven heals scrofulous sores. 

 Cypress root, pounded with the leaves and taken in 

 drink, cures affections of the bladder and strangury, 

 and counteracts the poison of spiders. The shavings 

 taken in drink act as an emmenagogue, and neutra- 

 lize the stings of scorpions. 



XI. The big cedrus, which they call cedrelate,'^ Thebig 

 yiekls a pitch which is called cedria, very useful for 

 toothache ; for it breaks the teeth and brings them 

 out, easing the pain. I have ah-eady described '^ how 

 cedrus juice is extracted from the wood, of great use 

 for book-rolls « Avere it not for the headache it causes. 



' The reading [volumina) of the great majority of the MSS. 

 is slightly coniirmed by Pliny's speaking in the context of the 

 preserving qualities of cedar resin. The headache apparently 

 is that said to be givcn to those using the rolls for writing or 

 reading. Detlefsen's collyria would be moro attractive were 

 redria among the ingredients of Celsus' prescriptions (VI. vi. 

 M 2 ff) for eye salves. Lumina (tapers, torches) is possible. 



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