PLIXY: NATURAL HISTORY 



71 XLV. Septimum dendroides cognominant, alii 

 cobion, alii leptophyllon, in petris nascens, comosis- 

 simum ex omnibus, maximis ^ cauliculis rubentibus, 

 et semine copiosissimum, eiusdem efFectus cuius 

 characias.^ 



72 XLVI. Apios ischas sive raphanos agria, iuncos 

 duos aut tres spargit in terra rubentes, foliis rutae. 

 radix cepae, sed ampHor, quare quidam raphanum 

 silvestrem vocant. intus habet mammam candidam, 

 extra cortices nigros. nascitur in montosis asperis, 



73 aliquando et in herbosis. efFoditur vere tusaque in 

 fictili mergitur, deiectoque quod supematat reliquus 

 sucus purgat utraque parte sesquiobolo in aqua mulsa. 

 sic et hydropicis datur acetabuli mensura. inspargitur 

 et aridae radicis farina potioni. aiunt superiorem 



^ maximis phrique codd., Detle/sen, Mayhoff : maxime r a, 

 Mayhoff coni. comosum [corruptum in comosissimum (como- 

 sumosum) per dittographiani] maxime. 



2 characias] characian coni. Mayhoff : characia aut caracia 

 codd. 



" Maximis is perhaps a strange epithet to be applied to the 

 diminutive cauliculis. It may mean that the minor stems are 

 comparatively large, but the conjecture of Mayhoff is plausible, 

 that Pliny wrote comosum . . . mazime, with no epithet 



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