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tione agens ,fic inquit . Infola alexandriaperfeit arborem uidi , at non in alia Homanisfubditagente.Quidam perfion ip- 

 fam appellant , aiuntque in Terfis lethalem eius arboris fruclum effe , cum tamen is in Mgyptiorum regione innocuus exi- 

 'ftat . hatlenus Galenus . Ex cuius etiam uerbispalamejfe crediderim , perfeam a perfica malo prorfus difjiderc, citm 

 Columellx J«- in tota ferd Europa perftca maltts frequentiffima proueniat . Quin & ex ijs faciU dixerim , ColumeUam errafe,qubd 

 exiftimauerit , perficaeaeffe poma ,qu&aTcrfis adMgyptios aUataperfeadicun\ur,ut libro cultui hortorum dicatohis 

 uerfibus teftatur . 



Tunc pmicoxbiftra defcendit ab arbore ficus > 

 v4rmenijsque i & cereolis,prunisque Damafci 

 Stipantur calathi, & pomis qu£ Barbara Terfit 

 Mifcrat(utfama eft)patrijs armata uenenis . 

 ,At nunc expofni paruo difcrimine lethi 

 lAmbrofios pr<ebentfuccos,oblita nocendi . 

 Nomia*. jtrbor,qu& *ef «* GrmsiLatinis fimiliter Terfea nomkatm'.ltalis,Terfeo Gr&d uocis imitations dicetur . 



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