MOLY. 



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turned into a pig by Cirol, as well as his companions, whom 

 he delivered from this disagreeable transformation. 



And yet, after all this, perhaps the learned are deceived, 

 when they tell us that the yellow garlic is precisely that 

 which Homer and Pliny call moly. Whichever way it may 

 be, I feel quite disposed to recognise equal and the same 

 virtues in both plants. 



