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venting animals from doing mischief by browsing upon the 
leaves, they should be sprinkled with cow- dung each time after 
rain, the showers having the effect of washing away the 
virtues of this application. 
The industry of man has really made some very wonderful 
discoveries, and, indeed, has gone so far as to lead many 
persons to believe, that hail- storms may be averted by means of 
a certain charm, the words of which I really could not venture 
seriously to transcribe ; although we find that Cato'^ has given 
those which are employed as a charm for sprained limbs, em- 
ploying splints of reed in conjunction with it. The same 
author, too, has allowed of consecrated trees and groves being 
cut down, after a sacrifice has first been offered : the form of 
prayer, and the rest of the proceedings, will be found fully set 
forth in the same work of his. 
Summary. — Eemarkable facts, narratives, and observations, 
eight hundred and eighty. 
EoMAN- AUTHORS QUOTED. — Comclius IN'epos,^^ Cato"^^ the 
Censor, M. Varro,*^^ Celsus,"^^ Virgil,'^ Hyginus,^® Saserna^^ father 
and son, Scrofa,^^ Calpurnius Eassus,^^ Trogus,^^ ^milius 
Macer,^^ Graecinus,^* Columella, Atticus Julius, Fabianus,^'' 
Mamilius Sura,^^ Dossenus Mundus,®^ C. Epidius,^^ L. Piso.^^ 
^1 De Re Eust. 160. The words of this charm over the split reed while 
held near the injured limb, were as follow : — " Sanitas fracto — motus 
danata daries dardaries astataries" — mere gibberish. 
De Re Rust. 139. This prayer was offered to the deity of the sacred 
grovC) after a pig had been first offered—" If thou art a god, or if thou 
art a goddess, to whom this grove is sacred, may it be allowed me, throui*-!! 
the expiation made by this pig, and for the purpose of restraining the 
overgrowth of this grove, &c." It must be remembered that it was con- 
sidered a most heinous offence to cut down or lop a consecrated grove. 
See Ovid, Met. B. viii. c, 743. 
"^3 See end of B. ii. 74 See end of B. iii. 
75 See end of B. ii. 76 gee end of B. vii. 
77 See end of B. vii. 78 gee end of B. iii. 
79 See end of B. x. so gge end of B. xi. 
SI See end of B. xvi. 83 gge end of B. vii. 
S3 See end of B. ix. S4 gge end of B. xiv. 
S5 See end of B. viii. gee end of B. xiv. 
S7 Fabianus Papirius ; see end of B. ii. 
88 See end of B. x. _ 89 gee end of B. xiv. 
90 A Roman rhetorician, preceptor of Antony and Augustus. He is 
said to have claimed descent from Epidius, a deity worshipped on the 
banks of the Sarnus. 9i See end of B. ii. 
