142 Aster History ; D1oscoRIDES 
leaflets just like a star ; but those leaves which are along the stem 
are oblong and hairy. 
[ Legere? 02 atopaxoy éxzvpovpsvoy, xOTUT ATT [EVvOY, KU! og ai- 
pav ghsypovds zai Bovfdvac, xat tas mpontwazs Zdo00s ; gaat Oe 
ch mopenpifoy cod dvbous, ps0’ Sdacos roblev avvayymnors Bonet 
nat sreyditas Tmatdwy. |* 
‘Aopozee 03 xatarhacaopzvoy 5 ceed zobs Povpdvor gheypovds 
s7pov 03 dvarpslev tH, dmacepg yetpt + tod Gdyodvtoz, nae xe peag bev 
tw Sovsorve dxadddaase tH ¢ O00vNS. 
It is an aid to a burning stomach when applied as a plaster, 
and for styes on the eyes and for tumors of the groin, and for 
hemorrhoids. They say that the purple part of the flower, taken 
as a drink with water, is a help in labor-pains and in the epileptic 
fits of children. 
It is a remedy, when applied moist as a plaster, for tumors of 
the groin; and dry, when held in the left hand of one in labor- 
pains, and when tied on around the groin it relieves the pain. 
[Iwecart 02 péoov xetp@v xt tOzwy Tpapecor. Tasty: 0 
datéosz ev vwoxtt ddprovew of yap Ly, elOOTeT, OTAY OITHY Z0wst, 
vom ovat Nest heel a ecvac’ ehotaxstac 0é TopU Booxotz zpopdrav. 
Kat Kpatebag 0 potopos tatopet: acy yhope xorcioa pesto. Cg 
Tahao), Tore? TpOT hvaaodyxtove xat Booyyounhexoos brobypewpeyy 
02 guyadebee Onpta. | 
[it grows in the midst of rocks and rough places. The stars 
* Rejected by Sprengel (not by Saracenus) “because occurring also “under Viola. ; 
But that may more likely have been repeated from this. | 
t C prefixes id. : 
f this bracketed portion, Sprengel remarks ‘It is absurd and smacks of 4 
pancestition foreign to the author. It is not found in the oldest manuscripts NO in 
ancient commentators.’’ Saracenus, following Marcellus Vergilius, remanded it to his” 
notha. Perhaps it was inserted by Dioscorides the Younger, about 100 A.D., who wa? 
a compiler from Crateva 
Of the previous bracketed portion, adeAci ... taidwy was deemed an interpolation as 
Sprengel, and suspected (though eR by haere these lines are lacking in nC. 
are not quoted by Pliny or Galen or Avicenna; but are n Serapion and all editions 
(Sprengel). They are repeated with but slight "change, two chapters 0 onward, of 
violet ; from which chapter, thought neon wey might = been transferred § gs — 
I think there are too many differences of p P 
for the first part, odeAei—idpac ; though the following words, Ee Se being ‘ake 
in both, may have been a copyist’s reduplication, word for word. See p p. 143-146 
