PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



103 LVII. Agaricum ut fungus nascitur arboribus 

 circa Bosporum colore candido. dantur oboli quattuor 

 contriti cum binis cyathis aceti mulsi. id quod in 

 Gallia ^ nascitur infirmius habetur, praeterea mas 

 spissior amariorque ^ — hic et capitis dolores facit — 

 femina solutior, initio gustus dulcis mox in amari- 

 tudinem transit. 



104 LVIII. Echios utriusque generis ^ puleio similis, 

 foHis coronat * ; datur drachmis duabus ex vini cyathis 

 quattuor.^ item altera, quae lanugine distinguitur 

 spinosa, cui et capitula viperae similia sunt, haec 

 ex vino et aceto. quidam echion personatam vocant 

 cuius foHo nullum est latius, grandes lappas ferentem. 

 huius radicem decoctam ex aceto dant potui. hyos- 



* Gallia Deilefsen, Mayhoff, codd.: Galatia ex Dioscoride 

 Sillig. 



2 spissior amariorque Detlefsen, Mayhoff, d.: spissiora 

 maiorque V : maiorque spissiorque E. 



* Post generis lacunam statuit lanus, nescio an recte. 



* coronat; datur coni. Mayhoff, qui XXI. 52, 54 confert : 

 coronaria Detlefsen : coronata (corinata V) codd. 



^ quattuor codd. et editores recentes : quattuor datur vulg. 



" Dioscorides has Galatia, the Greek for Gaul. 



^ Praeterea is unexpected, and no emendation suggests 

 itself. Dioscorides does not help, because he and Pliny 

 differ here so widely. The propterea of V seems a mere 

 error. 



' Dioscorides says this of both " sexes " : yevaeL Se 

 dfX(j)6Tepa oixoia, Kar' apxa^ /xev yXvKatovra, elra e^ draSdcreaj? 

 e^TTiKpa flll. 1). The two authorities might be made to agree 

 by putting a full stop at solutior, but then amarior conflicts 

 with dulcis. This difBculty might be avoided by reading 

 maiorque spissiorque with E, but these words seem a scribe's 

 correction of spissiora maiorque (V.), which however is surely 

 a wrong division of spissior amariorque, the reading in the 

 t«xt. 



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