BOOK XXVI. Lxx. 113-LXXI. 116 



oxymel," leaves of cinquefoil in water, and also 

 archezostis, but the last must be taken in drink for 

 a year. Other cures are dried root of baccar crushed 

 to powder and taken in hot water in doses of three 

 cyathi with one of coriander, pounded centunculus 

 in vinegar or honey or hot water,^ vervain taken in 

 wine, three crushed berries of hyssop taken in water 

 for sixteen days, equal quantities of peucedanum 

 and sears rennet taken in drink, crushed leaves of 

 cinquefoil taken in wine for thirty days, powdered 

 betony in doses of three denarii by weight with a 

 cyathus of squill vinegar and an ounce of Attic 

 honey,*^ scammony in doses ** of two oboli with four 

 drachmae of beaver-oil. 



LXXI. The chills of fever are reUeved by agaric Fevers. 

 taken in hot water, tertian fevers by sideritis with 

 oil, by crushed ladanum, a plant found in grain fields, 

 by plantain in hydromel taken in two-drachma doses 

 within two hours before a paroxysm, juice of its root 

 soaked or pounded, or by the root itself beaten up in 

 water * heated with hot iron. Some physicians 

 have prescribed doses of three roots in three cyathi 

 of water, changing three to four if the fever is 

 quartan. If one takes, when bugloss is withering, 



menting that Pliny secms to say : " Yes, archezostis does cure, 

 but it takes a long time." 



*" It is often difficult to see whether in such phrases the 

 adverbial expression goes with the participle tritus or not. 

 Here for instance the Bohn translators have " bruised in 

 vinegar." See note § 115. 



" I take uncia to be ablative with cum understood, but as 

 far as the grammar is concerned, meUis Attici uncia might 

 be a new remedy, with uncia nominative. 



"* Littre translates as I do, but the Bohn translators think 

 that the numbers refer to the proportions of the prescription. 



' Perhaps, " pounded root itself in water etc." 



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