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In addition to these, there are various other kinds of earth, endowed with peculiar properties of their own, and which have been already mentioned on former occasions. [Note] We may, however, take the present opportunity of again remarking the following properties. The earth of the island of Galata and of the vicinity of Clypea, in Africa, is fatal to scorpions; and that of the Balearic Islands and of Ebusus kills serpents.
SUMMARY.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, nine hundred and fifty-six.
ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Messala [Note] the Orator, the Elder Messala, [Note] Fenestella, [Note] Atticus, [Note] M. Varro, [Note] Verrius, [Note] Cornelius Nepos, [Note] Deculo, [Note] Mucianus, [Note] Melissus, [Note] Vitruvius, [Note] Cassius Severus Longulanus, [Note] Fabius Vestalis, [Note] who wrote on Painting.
FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Pasiteles, [Note] Apelles, [Note] Melanthius [Note] Asclepiodorus, [Note] Euphranor, [Note] Heliodorus, [Note] who wrote on the Votive Offerings of the Athenians, Metrodorus, [Note] who wrote on Architecture, Democritus, [Note] Theophrastus, [Note] Apion [Note]
the grammarian, who wrote on the Medicines derived from Metals, Nymphodorus, [Note] Iollas, [Note] Apollodorus, [Note] Andreas, [Note] Heraclides, [Note] Diagoras, [Note] Botrys, [Note] Archidemus, [Note] Dionysius, [Note] Aristogenes, [Note] Democles, [Note] Mnesides, [Note] Xenocrates [Note] the son of Zeno, Theomnestus. [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 35.58 | Plin. Nat. 35.59 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 36.1 |
