BOOK XXXV. Lix. 202 



LIX. Moreover there are other kinds of earth 

 with a special property of their own about which 

 we have spoken already, but the nature of whichni,?» 

 must again be stated here : soil taken from the ' 

 island of Galata and in the neighbourhood of Clupea 

 in Africa kills scorpions, and that of the Balearic 

 Islands and Iviza is fatal to snakes. 



Note however that the reading Aristidis in XXXV. 108 is 

 uncertain and that Nicomachus is not mentioned in 111. 

 Nicomachus had a son and pupil the younger Aristides (A. of 

 Thebes 98-100, 110) who was thus grandson of A. the elder. 

 The younger is named also in XXXV. 24, and VII. 126. 

 Pliny shows some confusion of the two. 



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