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rieties are feldom fowed in any one 

 place. 



Tliny and others that have wrote of 

 its virtues, fpeak of it as being by na- 

 ture one of the moft cooling refrefliing 

 herbs that is, and confequently grateful 

 to the ftomach in the heat of fummer, 

 caufing an appetite and digeflion; but 

 was more particularly ufed by the an- 

 tients (as the learned 'T) e lac ampins ^ in his 

 annotations on Tliny, affures us) towards 

 the latter end of their feafts, that it might 

 expel hard drinking, and thofe grievous 

 pains in the head that attend it, accord- 

 ing to that of Martialy 



Claudere qtiae cmas laBuca folebat avorumy 

 T>ic mihiy cur noftras inchoat ilia dapes. 



Some indeed complain of its foporife- 

 rous quality, calling it, in a metapho- 

 rical fcnfe, the mortuorum cibiy on ac- 

 count of its conciliating quality, and 

 the ftory of Adonis his fad miftreis 5 but 

 Autor Moreti, as the aforemention'd 

 T>elacampius notes, allows it a much 

 better title, who calls it. 



Grata que nobilimny reojtiieslaElucaciborum, 



And 



