PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



20 XII. Cedrides, hoc est fructus cedri, tussim sanant, 

 urinam cient, alvum sistunt, utiles ruptis, convulsis, 

 spasticis, stranguriae, vulvis, ad antidota contra ^ 

 lepores marinos eademque quae supra, coUectionibus 

 inflammationibusque. 



21 XIII. De galbano diximus. neque umidum neque 

 aridum probatur, et quale docuimus. per se bibitur 

 ad tussim veterem, suspiria, rupta, convulsa. in- 

 ponitur ischiadicis, lateris doloribus, panis, furunculis, 

 corpori ab ossibus recedenti, strumis, articulorum 

 nodis, dentium quoque doloribus. inlinitur et cum 

 melle capitis ulceribus. purulentis infunditur auribus 

 cum rosaceo aut nardo. odore comitialibus subvenit, 

 et vulva strangulante vel in stomachi defectu. 

 abortus non exeuntes trahit adpositu vel suffitu, item 



22 ramo hellibori circumlitum atque subiectum. ser- 

 pentes nidore urentium fugari diximus. fugiunt et 

 perunctos galbano. medetur et ab scorpione percussis. 



^ ad antidota contra lanus : contra aculeata Detlefsen : 

 contra aconita Mayhoff : admoti contra vulg. : contra adjnota 

 codd. 



TTOOis ovv yXvKtl XafjL^avofievrj ^o-qOeij oi^eAet koI eXfcf^avriwvTas 

 . . . Kadaipei Kai, ra ev TTvevfj.ovL IXkt} Kal tdrat ravTa ooov 

 Kvados po(j}ovfi(VT]. The statements that Pliny records doubt- 

 fuily appear in the Greek ; but the great difficulty is, not to 

 explain the similarities, but to account for the dilierences. 



" No restoration of this locus corruptus is really satisfactory. 

 The vulgate, if admoli be changed to adrnotae (since cedris is 

 feminine), is possible, but vidvis admotae sounds odd after a 

 list of datives depending upon utiles. If the order of contra 

 admota be sound, then admota has replaced some substantive, 

 to recover 'which is next to impossible, as in chapter XII there is 

 but a generalresemblance to the end of Dioscorides I. 77, where 

 we read €fip.r]va dyovcn fieTa TreTrepecos Xelai Tnvofxevai, Kai Trpos 

 Xayoiov daXaaaiov k.t.X. This, translated into Latin, would 

 be nothing like Pliny's corrupt text. At the end of chap. 77, 



