PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



venitur sed, ubi potest, circa vindemias quaeritur. 

 odor gravis ei, set ^ radicis et mali gravior ex albo. 

 mala matura in umbra siccantur. sucus ex his sole 

 densatur, item radicis tusae vel in vino nigro ad 

 tertias decoctae. folia servantur in muria, efficacius 

 150 albi.2 rore tactorum ^ sucus pestis est. sic quoque 

 noxiae vires. gravedinem adferunt etiam olfactu, 

 quamquam mala in aliquis terris manduntur, nimio 

 tamen odore obmutescunt ignari, potu quidem 

 largiore etiam moriuntur. vis somnifica pro viribus 

 bibentium. media potio cyathi unius. bibitur et 

 contra serpentes et ante sectiones punctionesque, ne 

 sentiantur. ob haec satis est aliquis somnum odore 

 quaesisse. bibitur et pro helleboro duobus obolis in 

 mulso * — efficacius helleborum — ad vomitiones et ad 

 bilem nigram extrahendam. 



^ ei, set Detlefsen pos( Hard. et cod. Dal. ; ei, ut et Mayhoff : 

 eius et codd. 



2 eiBcacius albi. rore Urlichs et Detlefsen : efficacius ; 

 salsus rore 2Iayhoff : albus non albi codd. 



^ tactorum Detlefsen : tantum Mayhoff, codd. : 'pro rore 

 tantum coni. rorulenti Urlichs. 



* Sic distinxit Mayhoff. 



" Dioscorides, IV. 75 (Wellmann) has : eart Be erepyeoTepos 



TOV OTTOV 6 X^AoS. OVK eV TTaVTL §6 TOTTW ^epOVOLV OTTOV al pi^ai' 



VTTohelKwai he t6 tolovtov r) Trelpa. Our two authorities dififer 

 here ; there seems nothing in Pliny to correspond to 17 nelpa. 



^" What we caU " red " wine. 



' UrUch's emendation would give roughly the same sense; 

 Mayhoff 's would mean : " more eifectively in brine ; juice 

 merely salted by the dew is deadly." Mayhoff compares ros 

 salsus (XX\ni § 71), but the emendation is not happy. I think 

 that rore . ... est is really a parenthesis. If so, sic is much 

 more natural. 



■* Possibly, " Its power to induce sleep depends upon the 

 resistance (reaction?) of the patient." 



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