3227 This may easily be accounted for, by the seed accidentally lodging in a crevice of the tree.
3228 A.U.C. 600.
3229 An exaggerated account merely of a land-slip.
3233 This was the native place of Ovid, who alludes to its cold streams, Tristia, B. iv. El. x. ll. 3, 4:—
Irrigation of the vine is still practised in the east, in Italy, and in Spain; but it does not tend to improve the quality of the wine.
3234 The Sagrus, now the Sangro.
3235 “Uredo rubigo” and “uredo caries.”
3237 Still practised upon the cherry-tree.
3238 He alludes to the medical operation for the removal of carious bones, described by Celsus, B. viii. c. 3.
3239 This is still done by some persons; but it can be productive of no beneficial result.
3240 See B. xv. c. 21: the Cynips psenes of Linn. It penetrates the fig at the base, and deposits an egg in each seed, which is ultimately eaten by the larva; hence the supposed transformation.
3241 A kind of wasp, probably.
3242 A puerility borrowed from Columella, B. v. c. 10.
3243 From Columella, B. v. c. 10.
3244 Trucidatio.
3245 For the removal of moss and lichens, which obstruct evaporation, and collect moisture to an inconvenient degree, besides harbouring insects.
3246 Agriculturists, Fée says, are not agreed upon this question.
3247 Or laser. See B. xix. c. 15.
3248 See B. xviii. c. 35.
3249 Pœnâ emendantur.
3250 It is very doubtful whether this is not likely to prove very injurious to them. This passage is from Theophrastus, De Causis, B. iii. c. 23.
3251 Without any efficacy, beyond a doubt.
3252 The action of salt upon vegetation is, at the best, very uncertain.
3253 These recipes are worthless, and almost impracticable.
3254 This method is still adopted, but with none of the accessories here mentioned by Pliny.
3255 A dangerous practice, Fée remarks, and certainly not to be adopted.
3256 Mitior.
3257 De Re Rust. 93.
3258 At the present day, fumigations are preferred to any such mixtures as those here described. Caterpillars are killed by the fumes of sulphur, bitumen, or damp straw.
3259 “Convolvulus.” He alludes to the vine Pyralis, one of the Lepidoptera, the caterpillar of which rolls itself up in the leaves of the tree, after eating away the foot-stalk.
3260 The “fly,” or “winged” insect. The grey weevil, Fée thinks, that eats the buds and the young grapes.
3261 An absurd superstition.
3262 This may possibly be efficacious, but the other precepts here given are full of absurdity.
3263 It might possibly drive them to a distance, but would do no more.
3264 An absurd notion, very similar to some connected with the same subject, which have prevailed even in recent times.
3265 De Re Rust. 160. The words of this charm over the split reed while held near the injured limb, were as follow:—“Sanitas fracto—motas danata daries dardaries astataries”—mere gibberish.
3266 De Re Rust. 139. This prayer was offered to the deity of the sacred grove, 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, through 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 considered a most heinous offence to cut down or lop a consecrated grove. See Ovid, Met. B. viii. c. 743.
3267 See end of B. ii.
3268 See end of B. iii.
3269 See end of B. ii.
3270 See end of B. vii.
3271 See end of B. vii.
3272 See end of B. iii.
3273 See end of B. x.
3276 See end of B. vii.
3277 See end of B. ix.
3279 See end of B. viii.
3281 Fabianus Papirius; see end of B. ii.
3282 See end of B. x.
3284 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.
3285 See end of B. ii.
3286 See end of B. vii.
3287 See end of B. iii.
3288 See end of B. ii.
3289 See end of B. ii.
3290 See end of B. ii.
3291 See end of B. viii.
3292 See end of B. viii.
3293 See end of B. viii.
3294 See end of B. viii.
3295 For Xenophon of Athens, see end of B. iv. For Xenophon of Lampsacus, see end of B. iii.
3296 See end of B. viii.
3297 See end of B. viii.
3298 See end of B. viii.
3299 See end of B. viii.
3300 See end of B. viii.
3301 See end of B. viii.
3302 See end of B. viii.
3303 See end of B. viii.
3304 See end of B. vi.
3305 See end of B. viii.
3307 See end of B. viii.
3308 See end of B. viii.
3309 See end of B. ii.
3310 See end of B. x.
3311 See end of B. viii.
3312 See end of B. viii.
3313 See end of B. viii.
3314 See end of B. viii.
3316 See end of B. viii.
3317 See end of B. viii.
END OF VOL. III.
J. BILLING, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, WOKING, SURREY.