PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



aqua aut brassica cum ture, frequenti potu calidae, 

 vel e carbone in conspectu restincto favilla digito 

 sublata et inlita, vel plantago tusa, tithymallus 

 characites.'^ 



119 LXXIII. Hydropicos sanat panaces, plantago in 

 cibo, cum prius panem siccum comederint sine potu, 

 vettonica drachmis duabus in duobus cyathis vini aut 

 mulsi, vel agaricum vel semen lonchitidis duabus 

 linguhs ex aqua potum, psyUion ex vino, anagalUdum 

 sucus, cotyledonis radix e mulso, ebuU recentis radix 

 excussa tantum nec coUuta, quod duo digiti conpre- 

 hendant, ex vini veteris caldi hemina, trifoUi radix 

 drachmis duabus in vino, tithymallum platyphyllon 

 cognomine, semen hyperici quod caros appellatur, 



120 acte, quam esse ebulum putant quidam, radice 

 contrita in vini cyathis tribus, si febris absit, vel 

 semine ex vino nigro, item verbenaca fasciculo 

 manus plenae in aqua decocta ad dimidias. prae- 

 cipue tamen chamaeactes sucus aptissimus creditur. 

 eruptiones pituitae emendant plantago, cyclamini 

 radix e melle, ebuU foUa trita e vetere vino — inposita 

 etiam boam sanant, id est rubentes papulas — pruri- 

 ginem sucus strychni inUtus. 



^ characites codd., Detlefsen : characias Hard., Mayhoff. 

 Cf. §§ 62, 146. 



" The carbo acts on the carbuncultcs by imitative magic. 

 * Or, " the crushed seed in dark (ix red) wine," contrito 

 being understood from contrita above, 



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