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27.114 CHAP. 114.—THE TRACHINIA: ONE PROPERTY.

What sort of plant the trachinia [Note] is, the authorities do not state. I think that the assurance given by Democritus must be false: for it would be nothing less than a prodigy, for a plant, attached as an amulet, to consume the spleen in so short a time as three days.



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