PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



121 LXXIW Igni saci-o medentur aizoum, folia trita 

 cicutae, mandragorae radix — secatur ^ in asses ut 

 cucumis, primumque super mustum suspenditur, mox 

 in fumo, dein tunditur ^ — e vino aut aceto. prodest 

 et vino myrteo fovere, mentae sextans, vivi sulpuris 

 uncia, ex aceto simul trita, fuligo ex aceto. ignis 

 sacri plura sunt genera, inter quae medium hominem 

 ambiens qui zoster vocatur et enecat,'' si cinxit. 

 medetur plantago cum creta Cimolia et peristereos 

 per se, radix persollatae, aliis quae serpunt cotvle- 

 donis radix cum mulso, aizoum, sucus e linozosti ex 

 aceto. 



122 LXXV. Radix polypodi inlita * luxatis medetur 

 doloremque et tumores tollunt semen psyllii, folia 

 plantaginis trita, sale modice addito, verbasci semen 

 ex vino decoctum tritum, cicuta cum axungia. folia 



^ secatur Hard. ex cod. Murb. : siccatur codd. 



^ tunditur (aut tuditur) codd. : teritur coni. Mayhoff. Cf. 

 Theophrasti H.P. IX ix 1 : ttjv 8e pllav [tov fiavSpayopov) 

 •npos epvaiTreXas ^voOelaav re Kal o^ei hevdelaav . 



* et enecat E r. Mayhoff, vulfj. : et necat multi codd. : 

 enecat lanus, Dethfsen. 



* radix polj^podi inlita cum priore sententia coniungit 

 Detlefsen. 



" Or, " are gourds." 



* The emendation teritur is supported by Theophrastus 

 IX ix 1 : pilav . . . ^vadelaav " scraped " ; but though he 

 and Pliny are very similar they are also in some respects 

 strangely unlike. Contrast for instance secatur in asses vt 

 cucumis etc. with renvovai. §e rpoxLaKOVs (Lanep pa(f>avLbos Kal 

 iveipavTes VTrep yXevKOVS eKpep.aaav eVt KaTTvw. Hort translat^S : 

 " they cut little balls of it, as of radishes, and making a string 

 of them hang them up in the smoke over must." Mayhoff 

 joins his teritur with e vino aut aceto. But as teritur has no 

 iLS. authority, and the parenthesis gives a very Plinian 



