BOOK XXVI. Lv. 87-Lviii. 89 



and a rose-coloured flower. The roots pounded by 

 themselves . . ." laver, raw. 



LVI. Silaus ^ grows in running streams with 

 gravelly bottoms ; a cubit high it resembles celery. 

 It is boiled as is an acid vegetable, and is very good 

 for the bladder, which if it suffers from scabies '^ 

 is cured by the root of panaces, a plant otherwise 

 injurious** to the bladder. Stone is expelled by the 

 wild apple,^ a pound of the root being boiled down to 

 one half in a congius of wine — a hemina of it is 

 taken daily for three days, the rest is taken in wine f 

 — by sea-nettle, by daucum, and by the seed of 

 phmtain in wine. 



LVII. The plant of Fulvius, beaten up with wine, 

 is another remedy for stone. It is one of the plants 

 named after the discoverer, and Is well known to 

 botanists.fi" 



LVIII. Scordion is diuretic ; hyoscyamus reduces .scorciion . 

 swollen testicles ; the genitals are effectively treated ^rmedies. 

 by juice of peucedanum, and by its seed in honey ; 



' A symptom of scabies of the bladder was urine containing 

 scaly concretions. 



■* Perliaps here " useless." 



• The commentators take this to be the same as the malum 

 terrae of XXV § 95 = aristolochia. 



^ After vino some MSS. add conicio or cumcio. Some 

 editors think that the addition conceals the name of a par- 

 ticular wine, but Mayhoff seems to be right in taking the 

 words to be corruptions of congio, which might be, as he says, 

 prave iteratum. 



» Perhaps " those who treat the disease," i.e. physicians. 

 Tractare is a very common word in the sense of " to 

 deal with," but in the present context, with no expressed 

 object, rather strange; it is stranger still tliat tliis seems to 

 be tho only mention of the plant. Hence Mayhoff' s con- 

 jecture nostratia. 



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