Ancient Rome and Modem Italy 67 



162 Z. Zanetti, La medicina, 253. The use of wall-scrapings, floor-sweepings, 

 and the like from Catholic churches for therapeutic purposes is attested for 

 many parts of the world: cf., e.g., E. Canziani, Through the Apennines and the 

 Lands of the Abruzzi, Landscape and Peasant Lije, 300; G. Bellucci, op. cit. 

 (see note 38), 60 and fig. 37a; Notes and Queries, Ser. 4, VIII (1871), 505; 

 XII (1873), 385 ; Ser. 6, VI (1882), 6; Ser. 11, VI (1912), 175. 



163 N.H. 37.162. 164 Drinking sow's milk was a more reasonable dependence, 

 N.H. 28.250; taking earthworms in a drink of honied wine defies rationalization: 

 30.125. 



165 G. Bellucci, Catalogue (see note 45), 64, no. 11 ; L. Eckenstein, "European 

 Amulets", Transactions of the Third Congress for the History of Religions, 79. 



166 Z. Zanetti, Nonne, 13; G. Bellucci, Catalogue, 36, tav. VI, no. 9; 37, tav. 

 VI, no. 19; Amuleti italiani (see note 45) 251: pietra lattea or latteruola. 



167 G. Bellucci, Catalogue, 35, tav. VI, no. 2; cf. W. L. Hildburg, op. cit. 

 (see note 161), 66. 



168 G. Bellucci, Amuleti italiani, 252; G. B. Corsi, "Sena vetus, superstizioni, 

 canti, indovinelli e giuochi", Archivio, X (1891), 31. It enjoys favor as a 

 wedding present: T. Nencini, "Un po' di medicina rusticana", Rivista delle 

 tradizioni popolari italiane, I (1893-1894), 888. 



169 Z. Zanetti, Nonne, 13. 



170 A. De Nino, op. cit. (see note 66), II, 29; Z. Zanetti, La medicina, 145; 

 E. A. W. Budge, Amulets and Superstitions, 319. 



171 M. Pasquarelli, op. cit. (see note 4), XVI, 54; E. Canziani, op. cit. (see 

 note 45), 212. ™N.H. 30.131. 173 N.H. 28.250. 174 N.H. 28.251. 



™N.H. 30.131. 



176 See the commentators on Pers. 3.18; Auson. 12.90-93. Sample cradle- 

 songs to hush-a-bye the baby: I. Rossi, "Ninne-nanne del Casentino", Archivio, 

 XV (1896), 79-81; G. Pitre, op. cit. (see note 58), 93-96; G. Giannini, Canti 

 popolari toscani, 3-10. 



177 Cf., e.g., Cic. De Orat. 2.39.162 with Aristot. Rhet. 3.4.3 and Sext. Empir. 

 Adv. Rhet. 2.42. See, too, J. Conington, Persius, note on 3.17. The custom 

 was by no means unknown within my lifetime among persons of German ancestry 

 in our country. 



178 Colum. R.R. 8.10; cf. Varr. R.R. 3.7. 



179 Of course, some of the things that are fed to a child for a purely supersti- 

 tious reason will, at least, do him little or no harm ; e.g., a piece of baked apple 

 to keep him from having diseases of the chest and from having a bad breath 

 when he has grown up: Z. Zanetti, La medicina, 139; cf. Mortimer Menpes, 

 Venice, 207. 



180 The Fascist rules for living forbid the use of wine or tobacco before the age 

 of fifteen: F. Fox, Italy of Today, 225. Cf. on wine and other articles of diet, 

 H. F. Brown, Life on the Lagoons, ll^-lld. 181 Isaiah 7.15. "Butter and 

 honey Shall he eat that he may know to refuse evil and choose the good" makes 

 it sound doctrine for any Christian land, although the newborn may get sugar 

 instead of honey in these days: cf. Notes and Queries, Ser. 7, I (1886), 145. 



1S2 N.H. 28.257. On medical use of butter on ulcers: N.H. 28.190; Cels. 6.18. 

 2 C; 6.18.2.1. See also N.H. 11.239. 



