DioscorIDEs’ ASTER ATTICUS 141 
tod datéoos, or Aster Samius ; the adjectives serving well to distin- 
guish the two uses of the word Aster ; see supra, p. 83. 
Dioscorides’ description of Aster Aiiicas constitutes the 118th 
chapter (120th by Saracenus’ numbering, 11oth of others) of his 
4th book, following that on Cirsion (Cirsium) and succeeded by 
those on Isopyron and on Viola purpurea (7. ¢., |Zo/a odorata L., 
with addition perhaps from Aster). I quote it from Sprengel’s 
edition,* retaining his brackets for the parts he thinks subsequently 
added, subjoining on each page my translation and adding notes on 
variant readings in the MSS. Constantinus (C) and Neapolitanus (N.) 
For review of the description and properties, see pp. 25, 39, etc. 
‘eg. pty. (pt) [xept Aorépos  Aczexo%. | 
"Aactiy arcexos + [of 03 doteptaxos, of 03 dozeptov, of OF fovto- 
vor, t of 82 bbc badpov, Pwpaioe typuvddec,§ Saxo: pateidal| | paseror 
Svd@des,§ ex’ dxpov Zyov dvbes zopgupody** xat a ide Dare 
avilemdos xsedheov ie peaysdes: a hes Og anit datépe Opoea; TH 
03 Epi tov xavhov gvAda. Dropyxn nat Oaded. 
CHAPTER 118 (120) [CONCERNING Aster Atticus] 
Aster Atticus [which some call asteriscus, some asterion, 
some bubonion, some hyophthalmon (¢. ¢ , polyopthalmon), the 
Romans inguinalis, the Dacians ratliibide’} bears a woody little 
stem, having, at the summit, flowers purple or yellow,}{ just like a 
daisy i in shape ; in a split border around the little head it bears 
* Kuhn’s Medicorum Graecorum opera omnia, 25 : 605- -606, Leipsic, 1829. 
t Concerning Dioscorides’ binomials, see supra, p. 65. 
} Oribasius has oi d2 BovBdvov. 
; and N have iyyuvadcc : others éyyevadis 
| The synonyms are all bracketed Be Seal following Saracenus. But the first 
four are such as Dioscorides Anazarbeus may properly be supposed to have written In 
apie iyyuvddcc may have been added by Dioscorides the Younger, about 100 A. 
d the Da acian name by some other about 200 A.D. 
TG = ee EvAadn, 
XH d Marcellus Vergilius, V. Cordus, Matthioli, Sprengel : instead of 
which the ice with Serapion, Ruellius, pairs Anguillara and Saracenus, read 
i, “or.”? Sa aracenus understood j) to mean ‘of tw kinds, with purple or with yellow 
ye fF is the tue reading, as codices ‘pale I would, instead, ee it 
“with aes hrgee may be called aber or called yellow, as they are caer 
Whave mi oxéow ovidapiov crevav ‘with a border around of narrow 
leaflets,” he lack dorépe bora, but that is found in Serapion, and in Oribasius, who 
is rag than C. 
é., ‘flowers which may be called purple, or yellow, as they are both.”” 
