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plint's natueal histoby. 
[Book XII. 
a nut, and very different from the extract of the real cinna- 
momum, though it somewhat resembles it in its agreeable smell. 
The price at which it sells is forty asses per pound. 
SuMMA^EY. — ^Eemarkable facts, narratives, and observations, 
nine hundred and seventy-four. 
EoMAN" AUTHORS QUOTED. — M. Yarro,^ Mucianus,^ Virgil,^ 
Pabianus,* Sebosus,^ Pomponius Mela,^ Flavius,*^ Procilius,® 
Hyginus,^ Trogus,^^ Claudius Caesar, Cornelius J^epos,^^ Sex- 
tus Niger^^ who wrote a Greek treatise on Medicine, Cassius 
Hemina,^^ L. Piso,^^ Tuditanus,^^ Antias.^^ 
FoBEiGN AUTHOES QUOTED. — Thcoplirastus,^® Hcrodotus,^^ Cal- 
the Myristica moschata of Thunberg, and Bonastre is of the same opinion. 
But, as Fee observes, the nutmeg is a native of India, and Pliny speaks of 
the Comacum as coming from Syria. Some authors, he adds, who are of 
this opinion, think also that the otlier cinnamomum mentioned by Pliny 
was no other than the nutmeg, which they take to be the same as the 
chrysobalanos, or " golden nut," of Galen. 
1 See end of B. ii. 2 g^e end of B. ii. 
3 See end of B. vii. 
* Fabianus Papirius : see end of B. ii, 
5 See end of B. ii. ^ See end of B. iii. 
7 The son of a freedman ; some further particulars are given of him by 
Pliny in B. xxxiii. c. 1. By his talents and eloquence, he attained con- 
siderable distinction at Rome. He was made a senator by Appius Claudius, 
and was curule aedile b.c. 303. He published a collection of legal rules, 
entitled the " Jus Flavianum.'* 
^ See end of B. viii. ^ See end of B. iii. 
See end of B. vii. See end of B. v. 
12 See end of B. ii. ^ 
^' Probably the same as the Niger mentioned by Dioscorides as a \\Titer 
on Materia Medica. He is also mentioned by Epiphanius and Galen ; but 
Dioscorides charges him with numerous blunders in his accounts of vege- 
table productions. 
1* A compiler of Roman history, who wrote at the beginning of the 
second century before Christ. He wrote Annals of Rome from the earliest 
to his own times : only a few fragments of his work have survived. 
15 See end of B. ii. 
IS C. Sempronius Tuditanus, consul of Rome, b.c 129. He wrote a 
book of historical Commentaries. He was maternal grandfather of the 
orator Hortensius. 
See end of B. ii. ggg end of B. iii. 
19 See end of B. ii. 
