PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



141 lycium. lysimachia recentibus plagis medetur, plan- 

 tago omnium generum ulceribus, peculiariter senum 

 et infantium. igni emollita melior et cum cerato 

 crassa ulcerum labra purgat, nomas sistit. tritam 

 suis foliis integere oportet. suppurationes, collec- 

 tiones, sinus ulcerum chelidonia quoque siccantur, 

 volnera adeo ut etiam pro spodio utantur, eadem iam 



142 desperatis cum axungia inponitur. dictamnum pota 

 sagittas pelUt et alia tela extrahit inlita — bibitur ex 

 aquae cyatho foliorum obolo — proxime pseudo- 

 dictamnum ; utraque et suppurationes discutit. 

 aristolochia quoque putria ulcera exest, sordida 

 purgat cum melle vermesque extrahit, item clavos in 

 ulcere natos et infixa corpori omnia, praecipue sagit- 



143 tas et ossa fracta cum resina, cava vero ulcera explet 

 per se et cum iride, recentia volnera ex aceto, 

 vetera ulcera verbenaca, quinquefohum cum sale et 

 melle. radices persollatae volneribus ferro inlatis 

 recentibus inponuntur, folia veteribus, cum axungia 

 utrumque, et suo folio operitur, damasonium ^ ut in 



144 struma, folia verbasci ex aceto aut vino. peristereos 



^ veteribiis; cum axungia utrimque et suo folio operitur 

 damasonium Mayhoff. 



" For lycium see XXIV §§ 124 foll. 



* The difference between plaga {TrXrjy^) and volnus {rpavjxa) 

 seems here to be nil. Littre has filaie for both. 



' Mayhoffs emendation here seems to give the sense : 

 " damasonium with axle-grease on both sides is covered over 

 with its own leaves." It is difFicult to state with confidence 

 what is, or is not, possible in a passage so amorphous in style as 

 the present, but there can hardly be any objection to utrmnque 

 in the sense of " either application," especially when the words 

 referred to (radices, folia) are of different genders, and each of 



