ADDITIONAL NOTES 



■manant, the corresponding words in Dioscorides being (III 156) 

 TTe(f>oimyfievos ra pa/3Sta ; in § 37 : conuie tritae velut cruentant, 

 the Greek being (III 155) dvdr} . . . ev tu) TTapaTpi^rjvai olovel 

 aifxdaaovTa tovs SaKTvXovs. 



Apparently Pliny here may be locahzing the staining 

 substance. He seems to put it in the filament, the hair-like 

 part of the stamen that supports the anther. 



Summing up we may say that conia means : 



(1) everything except the bare skeleton of stem 

 (trunk) and branches, i.e. fohage and its appendages; 



(2) a tuft; 



(3) any hair-like part of a plant. 



Additional Note on XXIV § 166 



It is obvious from the phrases pulchros bonosque of this 

 section and pvlchri bonique et fortunati of XXVI § 19, both of 

 which profess to report Democritus, that Pliny had before 

 him some case of KaXos Kayados, and that it, or some variant 

 of it, gives the general sense here. Why the text has been 

 corrupted, as it obviously has, is a puzzle, for the meaning is 

 both clear and easy. The reading of Detlefsen and Mayhofl', 

 with bonis, is hard to translate, implying that the parents must 

 be boni. 1 have printed (within daggers) the vulgate text, 

 which is that of the MS. X. Perhaps the excellcntis of the MS. 

 d is right, and the original was merely excellentis animi et 

 formae with parlum (Mayhoff' suggests excellentem for excel- 

 lentes) understood. Bonos or bonis may be later insertions. 



Alternatively, formae may be a corruption of formosos or 

 fortunatos. Improbable as this is, it is less improbable than 

 the actual corruptions which occurred in a phrase so plain and 

 so simple. 



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