Latin Texts & Translations

There is pissasphaltos too, a natural production of the territory of the Apolloniates, ^[Note] and consisting of pitch mixed

with bitumen. Some persons, however, make this mixture artificially, and employ it for the cure of itch in cattle, and of injuries done by the young sucklings to the mamillæ. The most esteemed portion of it is that which floats on the surface when boiled.