BOOK XXV. Lxxix. 127-LXXX11. 131 



for all these and for sorceries will be found in the 

 famous moly " of Homer, which is the best, next the 

 antidotes of Mithridates,** and also scordotis. Cen- 

 taury too taken in drink evacuates by stool all 

 poisonous drugs, as does the seed of betony taken in 

 honey wine or in raisin wine, or drachma doses of the 

 powder may be taken in four cy athi of old wine ; but the 

 patients must be made to vomit and take a second 

 draught. It is said that those who take this powder 

 every day will not be hurt by any noxious drugs. 

 When poison has been drunk help is given by aristo- 

 lochia, the dose being the same as for snake bites, by 

 the juice of cinquefoil, and by agaric taken after 

 previous vomiting, the dose being a denarius by 

 weight in three cyathi of hydi-omel. 



LXXX. Antirrinum or pararinon is the name 

 given to wild lychnis, a plant Hke flax, having no 

 root, a flower Hke that of the hyacinthus, and seed 

 Hke the muzzle of a calf. The Magi hold that those 

 rubbed with it improve in beauty and can be hurt by 

 no noxious drug ; Hkewise if anyone wear it on the arm 

 as an amulet. LXXXI. They say the same of the 

 plant they call eupHa, and maintain that those 

 rubbed with it win a finer reputation. They also say 

 that those carrying artemisia about them are not hurt 

 by noxious drugs, or by any wild beast, and not 

 even by the sun. This plant is also taken in wine to 

 counteract the effects of opium. Seaweed is said to 

 be a specific, and it is also taken in drink for 

 the poison of frogs. 



LXXXII. Pericarpum is a kind of bulb. There 

 are two species of it ; one has a red outer skin, the 

 other is Hke the dark poppy, but its properties are 

 stronger than those of the former; both however 



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