PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



imaginationes, eandem hippophobada appellat, quo- 

 niani equae praecipue caveant eam. 

 1G2 Theombrotion xxx schoenis a Choaspe nasci, pavon- 

 um ^ picturis similem, odore eximio. hanc a regibus 

 Persarum bibi contra omnia corporum incommoda in- 

 stabilitatemque mentis et iustitiae,^ eandem semnion 

 a potentiae maiestate appellari. 



Aham deinde adamantida Armeniae Cappado- 

 ciaeque alumnam. hac admota leones resupinari 

 cum hiatu lasso. nominis causam esse quod conteri 

 nequeat. 



Arianida in Arianis gigni igneam colore, colhgi, 

 eum sol in leone sit. huius tactu peruncta oleo hgna 

 accendi. 

 163 Therionarca in Cappadocia et Mysia nascente 

 omnes feras torpescere nec nisi hyaenae urina ad- 

 spersa recreari. 



Aethiopida in Meroe nasci, ob id et meroida 

 appellari, folio lactucae, hydropicis utihssimam e 

 mulso potam. 



^ pavonum Sillig, Detlefsen : pavonis ciim aliquot codd. 

 Mayhoff. 



^ instabilitatemque mentis et iustitiae] inmota stabilitate 

 mentis et iustitiae Detlefsen : incommoda ; a stabUitate mentis 

 et iustitiae Mayhoff, qui mentis et iustitiae uncis seclusit : 

 instabilitatemque mentis vulg. : forfasse ad stabUitatem mentis 

 et iustitiae : varia codd. 



" I take the " tortures " to be those caused by the haunting 

 phantoms, as is suggested by the repeated per oi per cruciaius 

 and per varias numinum imaginationes, though the phrases are 

 separated. But by ptr cruciatus Pliny may simply mean : 

 " while they are being tortured as part of their punishment." 

 So MayhofF (Appendix) : noxii inter cruciatus. 



" " Food for the gods." 



■= The schoenus was a measure of forty stades in length, 

 about iive miles. 



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