PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



pingui solo nec sicco. usus radicis ex vino vel aqua 

 dysintericis, alvo citae, ruptis, convulsis. 



22 VII. Alypon cauliculus est molli capite, non 

 dissimile betae, acre gustatu ac lentum mordensque 

 vehementer et accendens. alvum solvit in aqua 

 mulsa addito sale modico. minima potio duarum 

 drachmarum, media quattuor, maxima sex, tea 

 purgationi quibust ^ datur e gallinaceo iure.^ 



23 VIII. Alsine, quam quidam myosoton appellant, 

 nascitur in lucis, unde et alsine dicta est. incipit a 

 media hieme, arescit aestate media. cum prorepit, 

 musculorum aures imitatur foliis. sed aliam doce- 

 bimus esse quae iustius myosotis vocetur. haec 

 eadem erat quae helxine, nisi minor minusque 

 hirsuta esset. nascitur in hortis et maxime in parieti- 

 bus. cum teritur, odorem cucumeris reddit. usus 



24 eius ad collectiones inflammationesque et in eadem ^ 

 omnia in quae* helxine,^ sed infirmius. epiphoris 



^ ea purgationi quibus Jo. Muller : eximia purgatione 

 quibus Mayhoff : ea purgatio quibusdam vet. Dal., Littre. 

 Fortasse purgationi a quibusdam. 



^ iure Herviolaus Barbarus, edd. : fere d E r : ffere R : 

 fferre V : malit datiu- in iure e gallinaceo vetere Mayhoff. 



^ et in eadem (ni E) V R E : emendat d T : item eadem 

 Mayhoff. 



* in quae ego : quae codd. et edd. 



^ helxine Hermolaus Barbarus : lielxines Mayhoff : varia 

 codd. 



" It is difiicult to suggest a restoration of this sentence, but 

 the general sense, I think, is that when used as a purge and not 

 as a laxative alypon should be administered in chicken broth. 

 Dioscorides tells us that the bowels might be injured by the use 

 of alypon, and in § 95 we leam that chicken broth was used to 

 mitigate such harmful effects. The various readings show that 

 the text is corrupt. It is very strange that iure, the practically 



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