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Pliny states, that the cultivation does not succeed in Egypt ; a fact confirmed by Abd-allatif, Clot- 

 Bey, and others, and by experience in the same Latitude in Northeast America. Besides being culti- 

 vated, C. cerasus has been observed growing spontaneously in Macedonia and Bithynia (Griseb. 

 spic. i. p. 87), Volhynia, Lithuania, and the Crimea ; and apparently indigenous in the forest South 

 of Caucasus (Ledeb. flor. Ross. ii. p. 6), and called there " bali ; " corresponding therefore to " aloo- 

 baloo," the name under which the cherry is cultivated in Cashmere (Royle ill. p. 85, and A. Dec). 

 Farther South in Hindustan, the tree was found by Lush under cultivation at Dapooree (Graham). 

 From Europe, was introduced into the gardens of America, where, in our Northern States, it is 

 now cultivated abundantly, the fruit though of good quality, inferior to some observed by myself at 

 Venice. 



Asclepiades of Prusa in Bithynia, founder of the Asclepiadean medical sect, teaching rhetoric at 

 Rome in the time of Pompeius Magnus (Plin. vii. 37 and xxvi. 7), and therefore not earlier than this 

 date. 



" 73 B. C. = 'pen-chi,' 1st year of Siouan-ti or Hiao-hiouan-ti of the Han " or Seventh dynasty 

 (Chinese chron. table, and Pauth. 249). 



72 B. C. (Sm. b. d.), after a successful campaign against the Dardanians and Moesians, the 

 Danube first reached by a Roman army ; led from Macedonia by C. Scribonius Curio. — His triumph 

 over the Dardanians celebrated on his return to Rome " B. C. 71." 



"69 B. C." (Clint, iii. p. 342), by the Romans under Lucullus, Tigranes defeated and expelled 

 from Syria ; and Antiochus Asiaticus established there as king Antiochus VIII. 



One hundred and twenty-seventh generation. B. C. 67, May 1st, mostly beyond youth : the 

 Greek philosophers, Cratippus, Antipater of Tyre, Andronicus of Rhodes, and Jason the stoic ; the 

 historian Theophanes of Lesbos; the chronologer Castor; the medical writer Dioscorides Phacas ; 

 the orator Hybreas ; the grammarians, Demetrius of Magnesia, Tyrannion, Demetrius of Erythrae, 

 Asclepiades of Myrlea the younger, and Aristodemus of Nysa ; the rhetors, Aeschines of Miletus, 

 and Apollodorus of Pergamus : the Latin writers, the poets Catullus, Yarro Atacinus, Calvus Macer, 

 and Bavius ; the satirist Furius Bibaculus ; the mathematician L. Taruntius Spurina; the historians 

 Sallustius, Lucceius, Aelius Tubero ; the orators Hortensius, Q. Cornificius, Furnius, M. Calidius ; 

 the grammarians Valerius Cato, Orbilius Pupillus, Curtius Nicia, Ateius ; the rhetors Antonius 

 Gnipho; and other Latin writers, Cornelius Nepos, Publius Syrus, Pomponius Atticus, and Laberius 

 Decimus. 



Berberis lycium of the Himalayan mountains. The AYKION: INAIKON of Nicostratus — 

 (Gal. comp. med. ix. 6), Apollonius, Niceratus, Servilius Democrates, Aretaeus, and Paulus Aegi- 

 neta, known to Dioscorides as the reported product of a thorny shrub called " loghitithos " having 

 many upright stems three or more cubits high and leaves resembling those of the olive, prepared 

 according to Pliny xii. 15 and xxiv. 77 by cooking the bruised branches and roots in water and 

 exported in bladders of the rhinoceros and camel, and employed medicinally among other purposes 

 against " erosos angulos oculorum," is referred here by Royle (Linn, trans, xvii. p. 83) : B. lycium is 

 described by him as observed on the Himalayan mountains, an extract called " rusot " made by digest- 

 ing in water slices of the root stem and branches of this and other species of barberry employed by 

 the natives against ophthalmia (Lindl.). 



" The same year " (Appian, and Clint.), after " two years " war, Crete subdued by the Romans 

 under Q. C. Metellus. 



"66 B. C." (Cic, and Clint.), in Asia, Lucullus succeeded by Pompey in conducting the Mithri- 

 datic war. 



"65 B. C, Caesar being aedile " (Cic. in Rull. i. 1 and ii. 16, see Clint, iii. p. 392), envoys sent 

 to recover money deposited in Tyre ; the will of Ptolemy Alexander bequeathing Egypt to the 

 Romans not having been found. 



"The same year" (Appian, Blair, and Clint, iii. p. 342), the last of the Seleucidas Antiochus 

 VIII. dethroned by Pompey, and Syria reduced to a Roman province. 



Salvia verbeinua of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Called in, Britain wild clary 

 (Prior), in Greece "sarkothrophi " or " vouturohorton " or "agrios vasilikos," in which we recognize 

 the "agrion vasilikon" identified in Syn. Diosc. with the AKINOC, mentioned as coronary by the 

 physician Andron — (Athen. xv. 26), by Dioscorides as a coronary herb resembling "dkimS" but 

 fragrant and more hairy, by some persons cultivated : S. verbenaca was observed by Forskal, 

 Sibthorp, and Chaubard, frequent in pastures from Constantinople to the Peloponnesus'. Farther 

 South, the"acinon" is enumerated by Pliny xxi. 52 and 101 as cultivated both for food and as 

 coronary by the Egyptians ; was known to Athenaeus in Egypt; and S. verbenaca was observed 

 by Delile on the Mediterranean border near Alexandria. Westward, the "akinos " or " akonos " is 

 identified in Syn. Diosc. with the " okimastroum " of the Romans; the " silvestri ocimo " is men- 

 tioned by Pliny xx. 48; S. verbenaca is described by Brunfels ii. p. 26 (Spreng), and Triumfetti pi. 



