€o Capvt Septxmvm, 
mebant 'le&iflimum Ammoniacum' 
Thu n fi m i ! 1 i mu m, vnde&Thy miama 
feu lUiiimcatumcognominatum fuit/ 
Ahoquin.v-ro.Thymiama compoll 
tio quxdam eratacpaftura,quam dijs 
dicacam facerdotes vefperi quotidie 
cremabant, dicebaturqs ld thymiama 
vocahuioab v£gyptijs mutuatc 
f *rn&§ feu facerdotalc. Mifcelia ea ( vt 
Plutarchus iri CoiBment. dc Hidc 82 
Oiiridc fcribit ) propter qiiadratum 
numerum, fedccim litterislacris con- 
tihebatur ; ex melle, vino> vua pafla, 
Cyperoy Reiina, Sefeli, Afpalatho/ 
Myrrha,lunco 5 Bryo fcu Mofeho,Ca- 
lamo, vtraque lunipero, Lacaphthoj 
Cardamomo , &c Bitumine parari foli- 
ta,euiu$ generis plui*es alias co-nfici 
confueuiire Diofcorides tradit ; nott 
cnim religioni acpietati fclum feruie- 
bant , fed etiam fanitati pneftand^ ac* 
commodabantur. Etenimadgratum 
odorem coricdiandum, ad catarrhos 
concoqucndosjobftrudiones cerebri 
fdferandas j c-aput a mueo repurgan^ 
dum, 
