PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



coUectiones omnes fuco maris, priusquam inarescat. 

 et alcimae ^ radix collectiones discutit. 



129 LXXX. Ambusta sanantur plantagine, arctio ita 

 ut cicatrix fallat. folia eius in aqua decocta contrita 

 inlinuntur, radices cyclamini cum aizoo, herba ipsa 

 hvperici quod corissum appellavimus. 



130 LXXXI. Nervis et articuhs convenit plantago trita 

 cum sale, argemonia tusa ex melle. peucedani suco 

 perunguntur spastici, tetanici. nervorum duritiae 

 aegilops suco, doloribus erigeron ex aceto inhnitur, 

 epithymum. spasticis et opisthotonicis perungui 

 semine hvperici, quod caros vocatur, itemque bibere 

 prodest. phrynion dicitur etiam abscissos sanare 

 nervos, si confestim inponatur trita vel mansa. 

 spasticis, tremuhs, opisthotonicis alcimae ^ radix 

 bibitur ex aqua mulsa. sic et rigores excalfacit. 



131 LXXXII. Sanguinis profluvia sistit herbae 

 paeoniae semen rubrum — eadem et in radice vis — 

 clymenus vero, sive ore sanguis reiciatur sive naribus, 

 sive alvo fluat sive feminarum utero, item Ivsimachia 

 pota vel inhta vel naribus indita, item plantaginis 

 semen, quinquefohum potum et inhtum, cicutae 

 semen in nares, si inde fluat, tritum ex aqua inditura, 



^ alcimae V f Sillig: aleeae Caesarius: algmae RE: 

 alginae d T. 



2 alcimae Sillig, Detlefsen, Mayhof}: alceae Caesarius: 

 algmae V : alginae d T : algme ceteri codd. 



" See § 85 of this book. 



* There seems to be here a distinction between trita and tusa, 

 which are sometimes strengthened into contrita and contusa. 

 Perhaps the former points to breaking up into bits, and the 

 latter merely to cnishing. Any distinction is sometimes hard 

 to observe in a translation. 



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