474 
]plij5-y's katural history. 
[Book XXXI. 
Great prince of Homan eloquence, thy grove, 
"Where erst thou bad'st it rise, is verdant now : 
Thy villa, from fair Academia^^ nam'd, 
From Yetus now its finished graces takes. 
Here, too, fair streams burst forth, unknown before, 
Which with their spray the languid eyes relieve. 
The land, I ween, these bounteous springs reveal'd, 
To honour Cicero, its ancient lord. 
Throughout the world his works by eyes are scanned ; 
May eyes unnumber'd by these streams be heal'd. 
CHAP. 4. WATERS PRODUCTIVE OF FECUNDITY. WATERS CURATIVE 
OF INSANITY. 
In Campania, too, are the waters of Sinuessa,^^ remedial, it 
is said, for sterility in females, and curative of insanity in men. 
CHAP. 5. WATERS REMEDIAL FOR URINARY CALCULI. 
The waters of the island of ^naria are curative of urinary 
calculi,^^ it is said ; and the same is the case with the cold 
spring of Acidula,^* four miles distant from Teanum^^ Sidici- 
num, the waters at Stabiae, known as the Dimidise,^^ and those 
in the territory of Yenafrum,^"^ which take their rise in the 
spring of Acidula. Patients suffering from these complaints 
may be cured also by drinking the waters of Lake Yelia the 
same effects being produced by those of a spring in Syria, near 
Mount Taurus, M. Yarro says, and by those of the river Galius 
in Phrygia, as we learn from Callimachus. In taking the waters, 
however, of this last, the greatest moderation is necessary, as 
they are apt to cause delirium ; an effect equally produced, 
Ctesias tells us, by the w^aters of the Eed Fountain^^ in 
uiEthiopia. 
21 "We are sensible that, in thus shortening the penultimate, 'we shall 
incur the censure of solecizing, which Hardouin has cast upon the poet 
Claudian for doing the same. 
22 At the Torre de' Bagni, Hardouin says, near the church of Santa 
Maria a Caudara. 
23 Saline and gaseous waters are good for this purpose. See B. iii. c. 12. 
24 Jt jias still the same reputation, Hardouin says, and is situate near 
the castle of Francolici. 25 gee B. iii. c. 9. 
26 Or " half-strength " waters, apparently. See B. iii. c. 9. 
27 See B. iii. c. 9. 
28 See B. ii. cc. 62, 106, and B. iii. c. 17. 
29 Alluded to, probably, by Ovid, Met. xv. 319, et seq. 
