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ASTER AS ANTHEMIS 179 
corides; taking zaovzevx»xdo7 for a form intended to imitate the 
Ionic and to include zaovg7, a purple border woven around a robe. 
The lines remaining direct the use of Anthemis for a pain in 
the stomach (as with Aster in Dioscorides) ; and for toothache, 
using the root roasted; neither direction occurring in Dioscorides, for 
either his Anthemis or Buphthalmon. The special virtue of his 
"Avbenic xopgvodvOnc was, fide Dioscorides, for calculi. These 
particulars look as if Aster Amellus, shining with gold center and 
purple border, and used as stomachic remedy, was in the poet’s 
mind as his Anthemis.—So with the Anthems nobilis, in the illus- 
trated Anglo-Saxon Apuleius; at least it is colored a blue purple. 
Chrysanthemum ; to this, lines 211-215 relate, beginning 
Take up the pure chrysanthemum dewy from the earth, 
Before the great sun renews his unending cycle, 
continuing, Bear it about the body, for it is able to ward off drugs, 
and perils from unlawful magical spells. . 
Peristera, t. e., Verbena (now mixed with Eryngium ?), is sub- 
ject of lines 55~73, which declare it a plant dedicated to Aphrodite, 
of two kinds, Trigonion and Aristereon (see p. 161, n.) of use for 
the eyes and headache and as an aphrodisiac, to invigorate. So 
Kyranis (uncertain Greek author, edited by Harpocration perhaps 
370 A. D.) indicates that Peristereon is a plant of Aphrodite by 
citing its otherwise unknown synonym * A/fhrodites. 
XXIII. AE£rTIOS 
Aétios Amydenos,another Greek medical writert of date thought 
to be about 540 A. D., was author of sixteen books { in which he 
scorides gave 
* Other synonyms Kyranis cites for it are Kynaedios ; Meretricis ( Dio gay 
Mertryx as synonym for Geranion); Centum capita. Pliny’s white Centum capita 1s 
Eryngium campestre L., which Kyranis calls Eringion, and of which his redactor, per 
haps 700 A. D. (Kyranos; or the Kirani Kiranides, as the work is called by Raimundius 
Lullius, g, v.), says ** Sow its seeds and you will find growing up 4 Gorgon’s head.” 
} The Greek original, as Sprengel remarks, ; 
second half has never been printed ; the first 8 books were printed, 1534, at Venice, by 
Aldus Manutius; followed by Cornarius’ excellent Latin translation ( 
quote), edn, Froben, Basle, 1 542; and by the Latin translation with notes on the plants 
by Solerius, Leyden, 1549. Sprengel remarks that for establishing Dioscorides’ text, 
Aétios is « of little authority, because his extracts from Dioscorides are not ge and 
he adds many from other authors and also many from his own description.’ . This 
makes him the more important however as a source of the plant knowledge of his time. 
