PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



contra morbos suum boumque, nec respicere legen- 

 tem, neque alibi quam in canali deponere, ibi con- 

 terere poturis. 



105 LXIV. Cummium genera diximus. in his maiores 

 effectus melioris cuiusque erunt. dentibus inutiles 

 sunt, sanguinem coagulant et ideo reicientibus 

 sanguinem prosunt, item ambustis, arteriae vitiis 

 inutiles, urinam cient, amaritudines hebetant.^ 

 adstrictis ceteris, quae ex amygdala amara est 

 spissandisque visceribus efficacior, habet excalfac- 



106 torias vires. postponuntur ^ prunorum autera et 

 cerasorum ac vitium. siccant inlitae et adstringunt, 

 ex aceto vero infantium lichenes sanant, prosunt et 

 tussi veteri quattuor obolis in musto ^ potis. creduntur 

 et colorem gratiorem facere ciborumque adpeten- 



^ Sic dist. Mayhoff. hebetant, adstrictis ceteris. quae ex 

 amygdala amara est, spissandique (sic multi codd.) viribus 

 efficacior vulg. : adstrictis ceteris visceribus, quae ex 

 amygdala amara est, spissandique efficacior Detlefsen ( Urlichs 

 secutus) : hebetant. adstrictoriis ceteris, quae ex amygdala 

 amara est spissandisque visceribas efficacior Mayhoff. 



^ postponuntur Dellefsen coll. XIII. § 66 : deterior ex 

 amygdalis amaris et ceraso, pessima e prunis : proponuntur 

 codd., Maylioff. 



^ musto Sillig, lanus, vet. Dal. : mixto codd., Mayhoff. 



« Book XIII. §§ 66 fF. 



* If with Mayhoff we put a fuU stop at hebetant and a 

 comma at ceteris we can malie sense of this passage without 

 emendation. As is pointed out in Forcellini, adstrictu^ some- 

 times means " astringens, acerbus, arpv(f>v6s." Cf. XXVII 

 § 121, gustu adslricto. If the fuU stop is put at celeris, some 

 word meaning " properties ", e.g. viribus, must be understood 

 with it : " gums deaden bitterness, and their properties 

 generally are astringent." The other pimctuation seems 

 better. Possibly there is a lacuna after amara. Dioscorides 

 I 123, ro 8e Koixyn avr^s (sc. dfivyBoArjS mKpds) arv<^ei Kdi 



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