V.
- Vapours to repreſs, 21
- Variety neceſſary and proper, 92
- Ventricle, 20, vide Stomach.
- Vine, 47
- Vinegar, 63; vide Appendix.
- Viper-Graſs, 47
-
Vertues of Sallet Plants and Furniture, 57;
- Conſiſt in the ſeveral and different Parts of the ſame Plant, 49
- Voluptuaria Venena, 28
U.
- Urtica, 30
W.
- Welſh, prolifick, 20
- Wind, 17
- Wine, 7; vide Appendix.
- Winter Sallets, 7; vide Appendix.
- Wood-Sorrel, 47
- Worms in Fennel, and Sellery, 17
- Wormwood, 49
Y.
- Youth to preserve, 85
Footnotes
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Lord Viſcount
Brouncker, Chancellor to the Late Qu. Conſort, now Dowager. The
Right Honourable Cha. Montague, Eſq; Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
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Si quid temporis à
civilibus negotiis quibis totum jam intenderat animum, ſuffurari
potuit, colendis agris, priſcos illos Romanos Numam Pompilium,
Cincinnatum, Catonem, Fabios, Cicerones, alioſque virtute claros
viros imitare; qui in magno honore conſtituti, vites putare, ſtercorare
agros, & irrigare nequaquam turpe & inhone ſtum putarunt.
In Vit. Plin. 2.
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Ut hujuſmodi hiſtoriam
vix dum incohatum, non ante abſolvendam putem.
Exitio terras quam dabit una dies. D. Raius Praefat. Hiſt. Plan.
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Olera a frigidis diſtinct.
See Spartianus in Peſcennio. Salmaſ. in Jul. Capitolin.
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Panis erat primis virides mortalibus Herbae;
Quas tellus nullo ſollicitante dabat.
Et modo carpebant vivaci ceſpite gramen;
Nunc epulæ tenera fronde cacumen erant.
Ovid, Faſtor. IV.
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καλουμεν γαρ
λαχανα τα ωρος
την ημενεραν χρειαν,
Theophraſt. Plant. 1. VII. cap. 7.
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Gen. I. 29.
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Plutarch Sympoſ.
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Salmaſ. in Solin. againſt
Hieron. Mercurialis.
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Galen. 2R. Aliment. cap. l. Et
Simp. Medic. Averroes, lib. V. Golloc.
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Plin. lib. XIX. c. 4.
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Convictus facilis, fine arte
menſa. Mart. Ep. 74.
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Απυνρον τροφυι,
which Suidas calls λαχανα,
Olera quæ cruda ſumuntur ex Aceto.
Harduin in loc.
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Plin. H. Nat. lib. xix. cap.
8.
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De R.R. cap. clvii.
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'Εφθος,
δοσικυος, απαλος,
αλυως, ουρητικος.
Athen.
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Cucumis elixus delicatior,
innocentior. Athenæus.
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Eubulus.
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In Lactuca occultatum à
Venere Adonin cecinit Callimachus, quod Allegoricè
interpretatus Athenæus illuc referendum putat, quod in
Venerem hebetiores fiant Lactucis vescentes assiduè.
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Apud Sueton.
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Vopiſeus Tacit. For the
reſt both of the Kinds and Vertues of Lettuce, See Plin.
H. Nat. l. xix. c. 8. and xx. c. 7. Fernel. &c.
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De Legib.
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Hor. Epod. II.
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De Simp. Medic. L. vii.
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Lib. ii. cap. 3.
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Exoneraturas Ventrem mihi
Villica Malvas Attulit, & varias, quas habet hortus, Opes.
Mart. Lib. x.
And our ſweet Poet:
——Nulla eſt humanior herba,
Nulla magis ſuavi commoditate bona eſt,
Omnia tam placidè regerat, blandéquerelaxat,
Emollítque vias, nec ſinit eſſe rudes.
Cowl. Plan. L. 4.
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Cic ad Attic.
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Sueton in Claudi.
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Sen. Ep. lxiii.
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Plin. N.H. l. xxi. c.
23.
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Tranſact. Philoſ. Num.
202.
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Apitius, lib. vii. cap. 13.
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Philoſ. Tranſact. Num.
69. Journey to Paris.
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Pratenſibus optima fungis
Natura eſt: aliis male creditur. Hor. Sat. l. 7. Sat. 4.
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Bacon Nat. Hiſt.
12. Cent. vii. 547, 548, &c.
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Gaffend. Vita Peirſ.
l. iv. Raderus Mart. l. Epig. xlvi. In ponticum—ſays,
within four Days.
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O Sanctas gentes, quibus haec
naſcuntur in hortis
Numina****—— Juv. Sat. 15.
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Herodotus.
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ωρα το
ραδιως φαινες,
quia tertio
à fatu die appareat.
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De diaeta lib. ii. cap.
25.
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De Aliment. Facult. lib.
ii.
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Philoſ. Tranſact.
Vol. xvii. Num. 205. p. 970.
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Plin. H. Nat. Lib. xix.
cap. 3. & xx. c. 22. See Jo. Tzetzes Chil. vi. 48. & xvii. 119.
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Spanheim, De uſu &
Praeſt. Numiſ. Diſſert. 4to. It was ſometimes
alſo the Reverſe of Jupiter Hammon.
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ουδ αν ειδοιης γε μοι
Τον πλουτον αυτον κ— το Βατ-ου σιλφιον.
Aristoph. in Pluto. Act. iv. Sc. 3.
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Of which ſome would
have it a courſer ſort inamoeni odoris, as the ſame
Comedian names it in his Equites, p. 239. and 240. Edit. Basil.
See likewiſe this diſcuſs'd, together with its
Properties, moſt copiouſly, in Jo. Budaeus a Stapul.
Comment. in Theophraſt. lib. vi. cap. 1. and Bauhin. Hiſt.
Plant. lib. xxvii. cap. 53.
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Vide Cardanum de uſu
Cibi.
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Vol. xx.
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Cowley:
Ουδ οσον ιν μαλαχη τε κ— ασφοδελω μεγ ονειαρ
Κρυψαντες γαρ εχουσι θεοι Βιον ανθρωποισι.
Hesiod.
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Concerning this of Inſects,
See Mr. Ray's Hiſt. Plant. li. l. cap. 24.
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The poyſon'd Weeds: I
have ſeen a Man, who was ſo poyſon'd with it, that the Skin
peel'd off his Face, and yet he never touch'd it, only looked on it as he
paſs'd by. Mr. Stafford, Philoſ. Tranſact.
Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 794.
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Cowley, Garden, Miſcel.
Stanz. 8.
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Sapores minime Conſentientes
και συμπλεκο-υας
ουχι συμφωνους
αφας:
Haec deſpicere
ingenioſi eſt artificis: Neither did the Artiſt mingle
his Proviſions without extraordinary Study and Conſideration:
Αλλα μιξας παντα
κατα συμφωνιαν.
Horum ſingulis
ſeorſum aſſumptis, tu expedito: Sic ego tanquam
Oraculo jubeo. —— Itaque literarum ignarum Coquum, tu cum
videris, & qui Democriti ſcripta omnia non perlegerit, vel
potius, impromptu non habeat, eum deride ut futilem: Ac ilium Mercede
conducito, qui Epicuri Canonen uſu plane didicerit, &c. as it
follows in the Gaſtronomia of Archeſtratus, Athen.
lib. xxiii. Such another Bragadoccio Cook Horace deſcribes
Nec ſibi Coenarum quivis temere arroget artem
Non prius exacta tenui ratione ſaporem.
Sat. lib. ii. Sat. 4.
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Milton's Paradiſe Loſt.
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—— Qui
Tingat olus ſiccum muria vaſer in calice emptâ
Ipſe ſacrum irrorans piper —— Perſ. Sat. vi.
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Dr. Grew, Lect. vi. c.
2. 3.
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Muffet, de Diaeta, c.
23.
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Dr. Grew, Annat.
Plant. Lib. l. Sect. iv. cap. l, &c. See alſo, Tranſact.
Num. 107. Vol. ix.
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Philoſoph. Tranſact.
Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 799.
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Mart. Epig. lib. xi. 39.
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Athen. l. 2. Of which Change
of Diet ſee Plut. iv. Sympoſ. 9. Plinii Epiſt.
I. ad Eretrium.
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Virg. Moreto.
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Hor. Sat. I. 2. Sat. 4.
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Mart. Ep. l. v. Ep.
17.
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Concerning the Uſe of
Fruit (beſsides many others) whether beſt to be eaten before, or
after Meals? Publiſhed by a Phyſician of Rochel, and
render'd out of French into Engliſh. Printed by T.
Baſſet in Fleetſtreet.
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Achilles, Patroclus, Automedon.
Iliad. ix. & alibi.
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For ſo ſome
pronounce it, V. Athenaeum Deip. Lib. II. Cap. 26 ηδ-
quaſi ηδυσμα,
perhaps for that it incites Appetite,
and cauſes Hunger, which is the beſt Sauce.
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Cratinus in Glauco.
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Nat. Hiſt. IV. Cent.
VII. 130. Se Ariſt. Prob. Sect. xx. Quaeſt. 36. Why
ſome Fruits and Plants are beſt raw, others boil'd, roaſted,
&c, as becoming ſweeter; but the Crude more ſapid and
grateful.
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Card. Contradicent. Med.
l. iv. Cant. 18. Diphilus not at all. Athenaeus.
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Sir Tho. Brown's Miſcel.
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Caule ſuburbano qui ficcis
crevit in agris Dulcior,——
——Hor. Sat.
l. 2. §4.
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Tranſact. Philoſ. Num.
xxv.
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Num. xviii.
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Theſaur. Sanit. c.
2.
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As Delcampius interprets
the Place.
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Scaliger ad Card. Exercit. 213.
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Cel. Lib. Cap. 4.
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Plin. Nat. Hiſt. l. 3.
c. 12.
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Hanc brevitatem Vitae (ſpeaking
of Horſes) fortaſſe homini debet, Verul. Hist.
Vit. & Mort. See this throughly controverted, Macrob. Saturn.
l. vii. c. v.
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Ariſt. Hiſt.
Animal. l. v. c. 14.
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ανομοια
σασιαζει
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Hor. Sat. l. II. Sat.
2. Macr. Sat. l. VII.
84 (return)
Gen. ix.
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Metam. i. Fab. iii. and
xv.
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Gen. xi. 19.
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Gen. ix.
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Porphyr. de Abſtin.
Proclum, Jambleum, &c.
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Strom, vii.
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Praep. Lv. paſſim.
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Tertul. de Tejun. cap.
iv. Hieron. adverſ. Jovin.
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Sen. Epiſt. 108.
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1 Cor. viii. 8. 1. Tim.
iv. 1. 3. 14. Rom. ii. 3.
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Has Epulas habuit teneri gens aurea mundis
Et cœnæ ingentis tune caput ipſa ſui.
Semide unque meo creverunt corpora ſucco,
Materiam tanti ſanguinis ille dedit.
Tune neque fraus nota eſt, neque vis, neque fœda libido;
Hæc nimis proles ſæva caloris erat.
Si ſacrum illorum, ſit deteſtabile nomen,
Qui primi ſervæ regne dedere gulæ.
Hinc vitiis patefacta via eſt, morbiſq; ſecutis ſas,
Se lethi facies exeruere novæ.
Ah, fuge crudeles Animantum ſanguine men
Quaſque tibi obſonat mors inimica dapes.
Poſcas tandem æger, ſi ſanus negligis, herbas.
Eſſe cibus nequeunt? at medicamen erunt.
Colci Plaut. lib. 1. Lactuca.
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Gen. ix.
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Ancyra xiv.
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Can. Apoſt. 50.
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Clem. Paedag. Lib. ii.
c. l. Vide Prudent. Hymn. χα θημερινων:
Nos Oloris Coma, nos ſiliqua
facta legumine multitudo paraveris innocuis Epulis.
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xv. Acts, 20, 29.
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Philo de Vit. Contemp.
Joſeph. Antiq. Lib. 13 Cap. 9.
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Hackwell. Apolog.
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Hippoc. de vetere Medicina,
Cap. 6, 7.
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2 Tim. iv. 3.
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This, with their
prodigious Ignorance. See Mab. des Etudes Monaſt. Part.
2. c. 17.
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Dr. Liſter's Journey
to Paris. See L'Apocalyps de Meliton, ou Revelation des Myſteres
Cenobitiques.
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Plantarum uſus latiſſimè
patet, & in omni vitæ parte occurrit, ſine illis lautè,
ſine illis commodè non vivitur, ac nec vivitur omninò.
Quæcunque ad victu neceſſaria ſunt, quæcunque
ad delicias faciunt, è locupletiſſimo ſuo penu abundè
ſubminiſtrant: Quantò ex eis menſa innocentior,
mundior, ſalubrior, quam ex animalium cæde & Laniena! Homo
certè naturâ animal carnivorum non eſt; nullis ad prædam
& rapinam armis inſtructum; non dentibus exertis & ferratis,
non unguibus aduncis: Manus ad fructos colligendos, dentes ad mandendos
comparati; nee legimus ſe ante diluvium carnes ad eſum conceſſas,
&c. Raii Hiſt. Plant. Lib. 1. cap. 24.
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Mart. lib. x. Epig.
44.
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Barl. Eleg. lib. 3.
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Athen. Deip. l. i.
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Cowley, Garden. Stanz.
6.
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Hence in Macrobius
Sat. lib. vii. c. 5. we find Eupolis the Comedian in his
Æges, bringing in Goats boaſting the Variety of their Food,
Βοσκομεθ υλης
απο παντοδαωης,
ελατης,
&c. After which follows a Banquet of
innumerable ſorts.
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Eſa. lxv. 25.
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Bina tunc jugera populo
Romano ſatis erat, nullique majorem modum attribuit, quo ſervos
paulo ante principis Neronis, contemptis hujus ſpatii Virdariis, piſcinas
juvat habere majores, gratumque, ſi non aliquem & culinas. Plin.
Hiſt. Nat. lib. xviii. c. 2.
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Interea guſtus elements
per omnia quaerunt. Juv. Sat. 4.
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Cicero. Epiſt.
Lib. 7. Ep. 26. Complaining of a coſtly Sallet, that had
almoſt coſt him his Life.
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Valeriana, That of
Lectucini, Achilleia, Lyſimachia, Fabius, Cicero, Lentulus, Piſo,
&c. a Fabis, Cicere, Lente, Piſis bene ſerendis dicti, Plin.
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Mirum eſſet non
licere pecori Carduis veſci, non licet plebei, &c. And in
another Place, Quoniam portenta quoque terrarum in ganeam vertimus,
etiam quæ refugeant quadrupeded conſciæ, Plin. Hiſt.
Nat. l. xix. c. 8.
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Gra. Faliſc. Gyneget.
Waſ. See concerning this Exceſs Macr. Sat. l. 2. c. 9.
& ſequ.
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Horti maximè
placebant, quia non egerent igni, parceréntque ligno, expedita res,
& parata ſemper, unde Acetaria appellantur, facilia
concoqui, nee oneratura ſenſum cibo, & quæ minime
accenderent deſiderium panis. Plin. Hiſt. Nat. Lib. xix.
c. 4. And of this exceeding Frugality of the Romans, till
after the Mithridatic War, ſee Athenæus Deip. Lib.
6. cap. 21. Horat. Serm. Sat. 1.
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Nequam eſſe in domo
matrem familias (etenim hæc cura Fœminæ dicebatur) ubi
indiligens eſſet hortus.
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Alterum ſuccidium. Cic.
in Catone. Tiberias had a Tribute of Skirrits paid him.
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Hor. Sat. l. 2. Vix
prae vino ſuſtinet palpebras, eunti in conſilium, &c.
See the Oration of C. Titius de Leg. Fan. Mac Sat. l. 2.
c. 12.
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Milton's Paradiſe,
1. v. ver. 228.
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