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In the number of antaphrodisiacs, we have the echeneïs; [Note] the skin from the left side of the forehead of the hippopotamus, [Note] attached to the body in lamb-skin; and the gall of a live torpedo, [Note] applied to the generative organs.
The following substances act as aphrodisiacs—the flesh of river-snails, preserved in salt and given to drink in wine; the erythinus [Note] taken as food; the liver of the frog called "diopetes" or "calamites" [Note] attached to the body in a small piece of crane's skin; the eye-tooth of a crocodile, attached to the arm; the hippocampus; [Note] and the sinews of a bramble-frog, [Note] worn as an amulet upon the right arm. A bramble-frog, attached to the body in a piece of fresh sheep-skin, effectually puts an end to love.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
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