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1 "Emplastrum." Properly, the little strip of bark, which is fitted in with the eye, and which is plastered or soldered down.
2 "Scutula." So called from its resemblance to a "little shield."
3 De Re Rust. 42.
4 Cato says, three and a-half.
5 Chalk and cow-dung. See c. 24 of this Book.
6 Perhaps "Tuliæ;" which would mean, according to Festus, the "cascades" or "waterfalls" of Tibur, now Tivoli.
7 Fée says, that if we take the word "rafted" here in the strictest sense, Pliny must have seen as great a marvel as any of those mentioned in the "Arabian Nights;" in fact, utter impossibilities. He thinks it possible, however, that a kind of mock grafting may have been produced in the case, still employed in some parts of Italy, and known as the "greffe-Diane." A trunk of an orange tree is split, and slips of numerous trees are than passed into it, which in time throw out their foliage and blossoms in various parts of the tree, or at the top; the consequence of which is, that the stock appears to bear several varieties of blossoms at the same moment. It is lot improbable that Pliny was thus imposed upon.
8 The plane and the oak are no longer employed for the purpose.
9 See B. xv. c. 25.
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