PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



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est, lac puerperarum mammis inposita extinguitj 

 veneremque testibus circa pubertatem inlita.i 

 remedia in ^ quibus bibenda censetur non equidem 

 praeceperim. vis maxima natae Susis Parthorum,; 

 mox Laconicae, Creticae, Asiaticae, in Graecia vero, 

 Megaricae, deinde Atticae. i 



155 XC\T. Cremnos agrios gremias tollit oculorum 

 inpositus, tumorem quoque polenta addita. J 



XCVII. Nascitur vulgo molybdaena, id est plum-.! 

 bago, etiam in arvo, folio lapathi, crassa, hispida. | 

 hac commanducata si oculus subinde Ungatur, plum-,! 

 bum, quod est genus vitii, ex oculo tollitur. | 



XCVm. Capnos trunca,^ quam pedes gallinaciosrj 

 vocant, nascens in parietinis et saepibus, ramis, 

 tenuissimis sparsisque, flore purpureo, folio ^ viridi, 

 suco caliginem discutit, itaque in medicamenta 

 oculorum additur. 



156 XCIX. Similis et nomine et effectu sed aha estj 

 capnos fruticosa, praetenera, fohis coriandri, cinera-! 

 cei coloris, flore purpureo. nascitur in hortis et| 



1 remedia in Mayhoff : remedio Detkfsen : remedia multi^ 

 codd. "', 



^ trunca lanus, Dethfsen, Mayhoff : truma aut truna codd. : 

 prima wlg. 'i 



^ folio viridi coni. Mayhoff : viridis Detlefsen, Mayhoff in- 

 textu, codd. 



• Although there is no trace of it in the ^LSS, radice seems to : 

 have faOen out either before or after crassa. The former-i 

 would give : " with a thick and hairy root," the latter :.■ 

 " hairy and with a thick root." ■: 



* That is, rubbed hghtly. But Pliny may mean that thej 

 person giving the treatment should chew a -wad of the plant, ! 

 pausing now and then to lick the patient's eye. One might' 

 emend to iUinsiur, but it is very unhkely that so common a 

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