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1 In B. xii. c. 51, and B. xv. c. 7.
2 The cyprus, or henna, is but little known in Europe: but it is em- ployed for many purposes in the East. The leaves, which have a powerful smell, are used for the purpose of dyeing and staining various parts of the body.
3 Pliny has most probably committed an error here in mentioning the "strutheum," or sparrow-quince; for the corresponding passage in Dioscorides, B. i. c. 124, speaks of the "struthion," the Gypsophila struthium of Linnæus, or possibly, as Littré thinks, the Saponaria officinalis. See B. xix. c. 18.
4 This, Fée thinks, may probably be the case.
5 See B. xv. c. 7.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), VINUM
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- LSJ, γλεύκ-ινος
- Lewis & Short, crāpŭla
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