PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



axungia, amomon suco decocto, item centunculus 

 decocta vel muscus recens ex aqua obligatus donec 

 inarescat, item lappae boariae radix e vino pota. 



106 cvclaminos decocta in aqua perniunculos curat 

 omniaque alia frigoris vitia. perniunculos et cotyledon 

 cum axungia, folia ex batrachio, epithymi sucus. 

 clavos pedum extrahit ladanum cum castoreo, 

 verbenaca ex vino. 



107 LXVII. Nunc peractis malis quae membratim 

 sentiuntur dicemus de iis quae totis corporibus 

 grassantur. remedia autem haec communia in- 

 venio : ante omnes ^ potandam ^ dodecatheum, de 

 qua diximus, deinde panacis omnium generum 

 radices, peculiariter longinquis morbis et semen 

 interaneorum vitiis, ad omnes vero dolores corporis 

 sucum e scordio, item vettonicae quae pota colorem 

 phimbeum corporis privatim emendat, gratiorem 

 reducit. 



108 LXVIII. Geranion ahqui myrrin, ahi myrtidan 

 appellant. simihs est cicutae, minutioribus fohis et 

 caule brevior, rotunda, saporis et odoris iucundi. 



^ ante omnes codd., Dethfsen : aput auctores Mayhoff, qui 

 multa similia citat ex Plinio, et colon post invenio om. 



^ potandam Hard., cod. Dal., Detlefsen : potanda E, 

 Mayhoff : ^tota^m aut Tpotu multi codd. 



" There are a few peculiarities in this part of Pliny that 

 should be mentioned, although no explanation (except haste) 

 suggests itself. We have the formless structure of § 105, the 

 repetition of perniunculu-s, and its (apparently) sole use in 

 this section. 



* With Mayho£F's reading : " I find in my authorities that 

 the following should be taken in drink." The deinde of the 

 next claxise suggests that the MSS. reading ante omnes is 

 correct, and the gender of potandam is explained by the fact 

 that dodecatheum is a herba. 



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