they serue giueth them to vnderstand that he hath chosen that peculiar tree And no maruel for in very deed Misselto is passing geason and hard to be found vpon the oke but when they meet with it they gather it very deuoutly and with many ceremonies for first and formost they obserue principally that the Moon be iust six daies old for vpon that day they begin their months and new yeares yea and their seueral ages which haue their revolutions euery thirty yeres because she is thought then to be of great power and force sufficient and is not yet come to her halfe light and the end of her first quarter They call it in their language All-Heale for they haue an opinion of it that it cureth all maladies whatsoeuer and when they are about to gather it after they haue well duly prepared their sacrifices and festiual cheare vnder the said tree they bring thither two yong bullocks milk white such as neuer drew in yoke at plough or wain and whose heads were then and not before bound by the horn which done the priest araied in a surplesse or white vesture climbeth vp into the tree and with a golden hooke or bill cutteth it off and they beneath receiue it in a white soldiers cassock or coat of armes then fall they to kil the beasts aforesaid for sacrifice mumbling many oraisons praying deuoutly that it would please God to blesse this gift of his to the good and benefit of all those to whom he had vouchsafed to giue it Now this persuasion they haue of Misselto thus gathered That whaâ—… liuing creatures soeuer otherwise barren do drink of it will presently become fruitfull thereupon also that it is a soueraign countrepoison or singular remedie against all vermine So vain and superstitious are many nations in the world and oftentimes in such friuolous and foolish things as these THE SEVENTEENTH BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS CHAP. I. ¶ The wonderfull prices of some Trees AS touching the nature of all those trees which of their owne accord doe grow as well vpon the main land as the sea coast we haue already treated sufficiently It remaineth now to discourse of those which to speake more properly are made rather and forced by art and wit of man than otherwise come by nature and of themselues But before I enter into this treatise I canot chuse but maruel how it is come to passe That those trees which for necessity need we hauing taken from the wilde and brute beasts and possessed in common with them considering that men maintaine fight and scramble with them for the fruits that fall yea and otherwhiles with the fowles of the aire about those which hang vpon the tree should grow to so excessiue a price as to be esteemed among the principall delights of this world And that this is so appeareth by that most notable example in mine opinion of L. Crassus and Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus This L. Crassus a right renowmed Orator of Rome as any one of his time had a stately and sumptuous dwelling vpon mount Palatine howbeit that house of Q. Catulus who defeated in battell the Cimbrians together with C. Marius went beyond it a faire deale in magnificence and stood likewise within the pourprise of the same mount But the goodliest and fairest Pallace knowne in that age was that of C. Aquilius a Gentleman or Knight of Rome scituate vpon the hill of Osiers called Viminalis in regard whereof there went a greater name of him than for all the skill he had in the Ciuill Law which was his profession Yet of all those three Crassus onely was challenged and reproched for that foresaid house of his And in this manner is the storie deliuered Crassus and Domitius great personages both and descended from most noble Houses in Rome after they had beene Consuls happened also to be chosen Censors together and this fell out to be in the six hundred sixty two yeare after the foundation of the city but during this Magistracie of theirs there passed many a foule day and bitter fit betweene them so dissonant were their natures and their conditions so farre vnlike Now it fortuned vpon a time that Cn. Domitius as hee was hot and hasty man by nature and carried an inward hatred besides in his heart which soone is kindled and set on fire yea and most insatiable vpon emulation and enuy betweene Concurrents such as they two were reprooued Crassus verie sharpely for his excesse in expence and namely That any Censor of Rome should dwell in so stately and sumptuous a Pallace as he did and euer and anon made offer to buy the House and pay him downe-right for it an hundred Millions of Sesterces whereat Crassus being a man quicke of spirit and of a prompt and present wit finely conceited withall and not to seeke for a ready answer tooke him at his word and accepted of the offer reseruing only six trees that grew about his house Tush quoth Domitius replying againe take those Trees away and take all if they be gone I will none of the house though I might haue it for a single denier Then Crassus hauing gotten the vantage and start of him rejoyned and came vpon him thus Tell me now I pray you good Domitius whether of vs twaine giueth a scandalous example to the world Whether am I my selfe I say offensiue and deserue to be taxed and noted by mine own Censorship who can be contented to liue quietly and louingly among my neighbours in mine owne house and that house which came to me by way of inheritance from my father or you rather that for six trees bid 100 millions of Sesterces Now if a man be desirous to know what these trees might be truly they were no other but six Lote trees very faire and beautifull indeed but there was nothing in them commendable saue only their spreading and casting a goodly shade And verily Caecina Largus a Nobleman and principal citizen of Rome vsed many a time and often I remember well to shew me when I was a yong man those trees about his house And since our speech hath bin of such trees as liue very long these I wote wel continued for the space of 180 yeres after Crassus death to the great fire that Nero caused to bee made for to burne Rome fresh and green they were with good keeping and looked yong still like to haue liued many a faire day more had not that prince hastened the vntimely death euen of trees also as well as of citizens Now lest any man should think that all the sumptuositie of Crassus consisted only in those trees and that the furniture otherwise of his house was but mean and simple and could minister vnto Domitius no matter of such contesting and reproofe disposed as he was to quarrel and find fault know he thus much That the said Crassus had before that time set vp in the open hall of that house
especially when the occupying vse and interest thereof hath gained a man as much as the principall Now as touching the titles and inscriptions of Bookes the Greekes therein haue a wonderfull grace and great felicitie some haue intituled them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby they would giue vs to vnderstand of A sweet hony-combe * others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say The horne of plenty and store in such sort that whosoeuer readeth these goodly titles must needs hope for some great matters in such bookes and as the proverb goeth looke to drinke there or else no where a good draught of hens milke You shall haue moreouer their bookes set out with these glorious inscriptions The Muses The Pandects Enchiridion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goodly names all and such as who would not make default of appearance in court and forfeit a recognisance or obligation to vnclaspe such books and turne ouer the leafe But let a man enter into them and reade forward Lord how little or no substance at all shall he find within the verie mids answerable to that braue shew in the front or outside thereof As for our countreymen Latines I meane and Romans they be nothing so fine and curious as the Greeks grosse are they in comparison of them in giuing titles to their books they come with their Antiquities Examples and Arts and those also be such authors as are of the most pleasant and finest inuention amongst them all Valerius who as I take it was named Antias both for that hee was a Citizen of Antium and also because the ancestors of his house were so called vvas the first that gaue to a booke of his owne making the title of Lucubratio as a man would say Candleworke or Night-studie Varro he tearmeth some of his Satyres Sesculyxes and Flexibulae Diodorus among the Greekes was the first that laied aside toyish titles and because he would giue some braue name to his Chronicles entituled it Bibliotheca i. a Librarie Apion the famous Grammarian euen hee whom Tiberius Caesar called the Cymball of the world whereas indeed hee deserued to bee named a Timbrill or Drum rather for ringing and sounding publique fame was so vain-glorious that he supposed all those immortalized vnto whom hee wrote or composed any pamphlet whatsoeuer For mine owne part although I nothing repent mee that I haue deuised no pretier Title for my Booke than plaine Naturalis Historia i. The reports of Nature without more ceremonie yet because I would not be thought altogether to course and rate the Greekes I can be content nay I am willing to bee thought in this behalfe like vnto those excellent grand masters in Greece for Painting and Imagerie whom you shall finde in these Reports of mine to haue entituled those rare and absolute peeces of worke vvhich the more wee view and looke vpon the more wee admire and wonder at for their perfection with halfe titles and vnperfect inscriptions in this manner Apelles went in hand with this Picture or Polycletus was a making this Image as if they were but begun neuer finished and laid out of their hands which was done no doubt to this end that for all the varietie and diuersitie of mens iudgements scanning of their workemanship yet the Artificer thereby had recourse to make excuse had meanes I say to craue and haue pardon for any faults and imperfections that could be found as if hee meant to haue amended any thing therein amisse or wanting in case hee had not beene cut off and preuented by death These noble workemen therefore herein shewed right great modestie that they set superscriptions vpon all their painted tables pourtraitures and personages as if they had beene the last peeces of their workemanship and themselues dissabled by vnexpected death that they could not make a finall end of any one of them for there were not knowne as I take it aboue three in all which had their absolute titles written vpon them in this forme Ille fecit i. This Apelles wrought and those pictures will I write of in place conuenient By which it appeared euidently that the said three tables were fully finished and that the workeman was so highly contented with their perfection that he feared the censure of no man No maruaile then if all three were so much enuied and admired throughout the world no marueile if euerie man desired to be master of them Now For my selfe I know full well and confesse freely that many more things may be added not to this story alone but to all my bookes that I haue put forth alreadie which I speake by the way because I would preuent and auoid those fault-finders abroad those correctors and scourgers of Homer for surely that is their very name because I hear say there be certaine Stoike Philosophers professed Logicians yea and Epicurians also for at Grammarians hands and Criticks I neuer looked for other who are with child still and trauaile vntill they be deliuered of somewhat against my bookes which I haue set forth as touching Grammer and for this ten yeares space nothing is come to light but euermore the fruit miscarieth belike before the full time as the slip of an vnperfect birth whereas in lesse space than so the verie Elephant bringeth forth her calfe be it neuer so big But this troubleth me neuer a whit for I am not ignorant that a silly woman euen an harlot and no better durst encounter Theophrastus and write a booke against him notwithstanding hee was a man of such incomparable eloquence that thereupon hee came by his diuine name Theophrastus from whence arose this prouerbe and by-word Marie then go chuse a tree to hang thy selfe And surely I cannot containe and hold my tongue but I must needs set downe the verie words of Cato Censorius so pertinent to this purpose whereby it may appeare that euen Cato himselfe a most worthy personage who wrote of militarie Discipline who had beene brought vp and trained to feats of warre vnder Great Scipio Africanus or rather indeed vnder Anniball who in the end could not endure Africanus himselfe but was able to controll him in martiall affaires and who besides hauing the conduct as L. Generall of the Romane armie atchieued the better hand ouer his enemies in the field and returned with victorie this Cato I say could not auoid such backbiters and slanderers but knowing that there would be many of them readie to purchase themselues some name and reputation by reprouing the knowledge and skill of others brake out into a certaine speech against them And what was it I know right well quoth hee in that booke aforesaid that if these writings of mine come abroad once and be published to the view of the world there will be many step forth to quarrell and cauill therewith such fellows soonest and most of all who are quite void of vertue and honestie and know not what
named Velleiacium wherein six men brought a certificate that they had liued an hundred yeares apiece foure likewise came in with a note of an hundred and twenty yeares one of an hundred and fourteene namely M. Mutius son of Marcus named Galerius foelix But because we will not dwell long in a matter so euident and commonly confessed in the review taken of the eighth region of Italy there were found in the rolle 54 persons of an hundred yeares of age 57 of an hundred and ten two of 125 foure of 130 as many that were 135 or 137 yeares old and last of all three men of an hundred and fortie But let vs leaue these ages and consider a while another inconstant variety in the nature of mortall men Homer reporteth that Hector and Polydamas were borne both in one night men so different in nature and qualitie Whiles C. Marius was Consull and Cn. Carbo with him who had been twice before Consull the fifth day before the calends of Iune M. Caecilius Ruffus and C. Licinius Calvus were borne vpon a day and both of them verily proued great Orators but they sped not alike but mightily differed one from another in the end And this is a thing seen daily to happen throughout the World considering that in one houre kings and beggars are borne likewise lords and slaues CHAP. L. ¶ Sundry examples of diuers Diseases PVb. Cornelius Rufus who was Consul together with M. Curius dreamed that he had lost his sight and it proued true indeed for in his sleep he became blind neuer saw again Contrariwise Phalereus or Iason Phereus being giuen ouer by the Physitions for an impostume he had in his chest in dispaire of all health purposing to kill himselfe for to be rid out of his paine stabbed his breast with a knife but he found this deadly enemy to be his onely Physition Q. Fabius Maximus being long sicke of a quartane Ague strucke a battell with the People of Sauoy and Auvergne neere the riuer Isara vpon the sixth day before the Ides of August wherein he slew of his enemies 13000 and therewith was deliuered from his feuer and neuer had it after Certes this gift of life that we haue from nature be it more or lesse is fraile vncertain and say that it be giuen to any in largest measure it is but scant yet and very short yea and of but small vse if wee consider the whole course thereof from the beginning to the end For first if we count our repose and sleep in the night season a man can be truly said to liue but halfe his life for surely a good moity and halfe deale thereof which is spent in sleeping may be likened well to death and if he cannot sleep it is a pain of all pains and a very punishment I reckon not in this place the yeares of our infancie which age is void of reason and sense ne yet of old age which the longer it continueth the more are they plagued that be in it What should I speake of so many kindes of dangers so many diseases so many feares so many pensiue cares so many prayers for death as that in maner we pray for nothing oftner In which regards how can a man be said to liue the while and therefore Nature knoweth not what better thing to giue a man than short life First and formost the senses wax dull the members and limmes grow benummed the eye sight decaieth betimes the hearing followeth soone after then faile the supporters the teeth also and the very instruments that serue for our food and nourishment and yet forsooth all this time so full of griefe infirmities is counted a part of our life Hereupon it is taken for a miraculous example and that to which again we canot find a fellow that Xenophilus the musitian liued 105 yeares without any sicknesse or defect in all his body For all other men beleeue me are vexed at certain houres like as no other creatures besides with the pestiferous heats and shaking colds of the feuer in euery ioynt sinew and muscle of the bodie which go and come keeping their times in their seuerall fits not for certain houres in the day only but from one day to another and from night to night one while euery third day or night otherwhiles euery fourth yea and somtime a whole yeare together Moreouer what is it but a very disease to know the time and houre of a mans death and so to die forsooth in wisedome For maladies there be in which Nature hath set down certain rules and lawes namely a quartaine feuer neuer lightly begins in the shortest daies of the yeare neither in the 3 moneths of winter to wit December Ianuarie Februarie Some diseases are not incident to those that are aboue 60 yeares of age others againe do end and passe away when youths begin to be vndergrowne and especially this is obserued in yong maidens Moreouer old folke of all other are least subiect to take the plague Furthermore sicknesses there be that follow this region or that assailing and infecting the inhabitants generally therein There be some againe that surprise and take hold of seruants only both all and some others touch the best persons alone of the highest calling and so from degree to degree But in this place obserued vsually it is by experience That a pestilence beginning in the South parts goeth alwaies towards the West and neuer lightly but in winter neither continueth it aboue three moneths CHAP. LI. ¶ Of the signes of death NOw let vs take a view of deadly tokens in sicknes in rage and furious madnesse to laugh is a mortall signe in frenzie wherein men are bestraught of their right wits to take care of the skirts fringes and welts of their garments that they be in good order to keepe a fumbling and pleiting of the bed-cloathes the neglect of such things as would trouble them in their sleepe and breake it the voluntarie letting go of their water prognosticate death A man may see death also in the eyes and nose most certainly of all other parts as also in the maner of lying as namely when the patient lieth alwaies on his backe with his face vpward We gather signes also by the vneuen stroke of the arterie as also when the pulse beateth so vnder the physitians hand as if he felt an ant creeping vnder it Other signes also there be which Hipocrates the prince and chief of all Physitions hath very wel obserued and set down Now whereas there be an infinite number of signes that presage death there is not one knowne than can assure a man certainly of life and health For Cato that famous Censor writing to his sonne as touching this argement hath deliuered as it were out of an Oracle That there is an obseruation of death to be collected euen in them that are in the most perfect health for saith hee youth resembling age is a certaine signe of vntimely death or short
pricky branches therof which being burnt and reduced into ashes and incorporate with honey into a liniment maketh haire to come againe where it was shed by any infirmity But seeing I am fallen into the mention of Spain it commeth to my mind what I my selfe knew and saw in the same prouince within the lands and domaines belonging to an host of mine namely a certaine plant or herb there lately found called Dracunculus which carried a main stem or stalk an inch or thumb thick beset with spots of sundry colors resembling those of vipers and serpents and I was told that it was a singular remedy against the sting or biting of any serpents This Dracunculus differeth from another herb of that name wherof I spake in the book going next before for this hath a distinct form from that and besides another strange and wonderful property namely to shew two foot or thereabout aboue ground in the Spring time when serpents first doe cast their sloughes or skins the same is no more seen at the very time that serpents also retire into their holes and take vp their Winter harbor within the ground Let this plant be gone once into the earth and hidden you shal not see a Snake Adder or any other serpent stirring abroad VVherby we may see what a kind and tender mother Nature is vnto vs if there were nothing els to testifie her loue in giuing vs warning beforehand of danger and pointing vnto vs the very time when wee are to be afraid and to take heed of serpents CHAP. III. ¶ Of a certain venomous fount aine in Germany of the hearb Britannica What diseases they be that put men to the greatest paine SO vnfortunat is our condition and so much exposed are we to manifold calamities that the earth is not pestered with wicked beasts only for to doe vs harme but also there be otherwhiles venomous waters and pestilent tracts to work vs more wo and misery In that voiage or expedition which prince Caesar Germanicus made into Germany after he had passed ouer the riuer Rhene and had giuen order to aduance forward with his army he incamped vpon the sea-coasts along Friseland where there was to be found but one spring of fresh water and the same so dangerous that whosoeuer drunk of that water within two yeres lost all their teeth and were besides so feeble and loose iointed in their knees that vnneth they were able to stand These diseases the Physitians termed Stomacace and Sceletyrbe as one would say the malady of the mouth and palsie of the legs Yet they found a remedy for these infirmities and that was a certain herb called Britannica which is very medicinable not only for the accidents of the sinews and mouth but also for the squinancy and stinging of serpents It hath leaues growing somwhat long and those inclining to a brownish or dark greene colour and the root is blacke out of which as also from the leaues there is a juice drawne or pressed The floures by a peculiar name be called Vibones which being gathered before any thunder be heard and so eaten do assure and secure the parties altogether from that infirmity The Frisians neere vnto whom we lay incamped shewed our men this herb But I muse much and wonder what should be the reason of that name vnlesse the Frisians bordering vpon the narrow race of the ocean which lieth only between them England called in those daies Britanica should therupon for the neighborhead propinquity of that Island giue it the name Britannica For certain it is that it took not that name because there grew such plenty therof in that country of England that it should be transported ouer from thence to our camp for as yet that Island was not wholly subiect to vs and reduced vnder the Roman seignorie For an ordinary thing it was in old time practised by those that found out any herbs to affect the adoption as it were of the same to call them by their own names wherein verily men took no small contentment according as I purpose to shew by the example of certain kings and princes whose names liue and continue yet in their herbs so honorable a thing it was thought in those daies to find and it were but an hearbe that might do good vnto man Whereas in this age wherein we now liue I doubt not but there bee some who will mock vs for the pains taken in that behalfe and think vs very simple for writing thus as we do of Simples so base and contemptible in the eies of our fine fooles and delicate persons are euen the best things that serue for the benefit common vtility of mankind howbeit for all that good reason it is and meet that the authors and inuentors of them as many as can be found should be named and praised with the best yea and that the operations effects of such herbs should be digested and reduced into some method according as they be appropriat to euery kind of disease In the meditation whereof I cannot chuse nor contain my selfe but deplore and pity the poore estate and miserable case of man who ouer and besides the manifold accidents and casualties which may befall vnto him is otherwise subject to many thousands of maladies which we haue much ado to deuise names for euery houre of the day happening as they do and whereof no man can account himselfe free but euery one is for his part to feare them Of these diseases so infinit as they be in number to determine precisely and distinctly which be most grieuous might seem meere folly considering that euery one who is sicke for the present imagineth his owne sicknes to be worst fullest of anguish And yet our forefathers haue giuen their judgement in this case and by experience haue found That the most extreme pain torment that a man can indure by any disease is the Strangury or pissing drop-meale occasioned by the stone or grauell in the bladder The next is the griefe and anguish of the stomak and the third Head-ach for setting these three maladies aside lightly there are no pains that can kill a man or woman so soon And here by the way I cannot for mine owne part but maruell much at the Greeks who haue published in their writings venomous and pestilent herbs as well as those that be good and wholsome And yet there is an appearance and shew of reason why some poisons should be knowne for otherwhiles it falleth out that men liue in such extremity as better it were to die than so to lie in anguish and torment insomuch as death is the best port and harbor of refuge that they haue Certes Marcus Varro reporteth of one Servius Clodius a gentleman or knight of Rome who for the extreame pain of the gout was forced to annoint his legs and feet all ouer with a narcotick or cold poison whereby hee so mortified the spirits of the
take it forâ—…h answered out of Hoâ—…er 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Ilâ—…ad a. whereby hee signified that he had made him according as Hoâ—…er the poet pourtraied and described him in his verses * Surnamed Lemnia because the Lemnians dediâ—…ated it * Scholls certain galleries where learned meÌ„ were wont to meet either walking or sitting to discourse of learning and to dispute And yet there were other Scholae withdrawing places in baines where those that came gaue attendance vntill there were roume void by others going forth * Symplegâ—… this may be meant of two wrestlers beeing at handy-gripes * Chaâ—… * 1. The temple of Diana in Ephesus 2. The sepulchre of Mausolus 3. The colosse oâ—… the Sun at Râ—…odes 4. The statue of Iupiter Olympias 5. The wals of Babylon 6. The Aegyptian Pyramides 7. The obeliske of Semiramis See Cael. Rhod. antiquar lect l. 23. c. 6. * Dalechampius suspecteth this place but me thinkes a man may conceiue euen by the very words of Pliny that vpoÌ„ the first pyramis of 2. cub it s ther was raised another spiâ—…e which lessened by 24 degrees like as wee may see in many steeples with vs and that might cary so many foot as beeing added to the rest will make vp the whole 140 from the ground * Some take thâ—… for the wise Philosopher so famous * So named by occasion of the statues of 14 natioÌ„s there erected as appeareth a little after * For in Greek Batrachos is a frog and Sauros a lizard * 〈◊〉 Here Pliny remembreth himselfe and makes a third kind of Oâ—…bites as Dioscor did before him * Dios. saith it is no bigger thaÌ„ a little pebble or grauâ—…l stone * or rather Onychiteâ—… Cassidoâ—…ie * Hieroglyphicae * 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 An 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifiâ—…n 〈◊〉 eleuen but I take it that here it is put for vndecentenis otherwise there was no proportion betweene the height the bredth Neiâ—… 〈◊〉 like that this proud prince being remoued from his former seat where he had erected Obeliske threescore and twelue foot high vnto another citie which he loued better would set vp a monument of nine or eleuen foot for his memoriall as may appeare more in the next chapter * Whom some take to be Amasis * Herodotus saith they were 250 foot high abouethe water and as many deepe vnder * Which was 250 foot so that the whole was 500 foot * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * In the sortith chap. of the 16 boâ—…ke he saith 400. * After the frame was made * The round church of Nâ—…ster dame now at Rome * H S. millies * At Rome * Puhlius out of Livie * For Sylla maried the mother of Scaurus * L. Crassus * The Romans delighted much in this word Maiores as may appear by their More Maiorum c. * Sestertiûmter millies howbâ—…it Budaeus reads quingenties quinquagies quinquies and that is not much more than the sixt part yet by his computation ariseth to a million three hundred eightie fiue thousand and fiue huÌ„dred French crownes * Nero. * i. The eccho * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is yron * Strigiles He meaneth those that be vsed in baines to fetch off the sweat and filthinesse of our bodies * It is taken for Alume de plume * If she drinke it fasting presently it prouoketh vrine if she bee a pure virgin Specularis lapis * It is said that wheÌ„ a suppliaÌ„t to this emperor came before him and shewed to him a glasse whole and sound which had bin of purpose broken before hee caused him pre sently to be put to death Cael. Rhodig l. 20 cap. 30. * That is to say columns pillars wherin were engrauen the names of cities and nations subdued by him in those voyages into Spaine * Octoginta sestertijs where you must thinke that he vses sestertium in the neuter gender which is a thousand sâ—…stertij for otherwise 80 sesterces come but to 20 deniers Roman and that is about 12 sh 6 d. sterling too much vnder the price of such a jewell and yet some read for sestertiis talentis and that is as much aboue the proportioÌ„ for one talent was esteemed at â—…000 sesterces * i. The value of 〈◊〉 talents * Treâ—…entis sestertijs capiâ—… I suspect this place for hee should haue interred a greater sum than that before of Tâ—…etronius or else Capis is a smaller piece than Trulâ—…a that should not seeme if it be deriued 〈◊〉 capiendâ—… so â—…alled for the capacâ—…tie but rather â—…f the eaâ—…s â—…et by a 〈◊〉 take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Purpura candescenâ—…e * Aut lacte rubâ—… * Some reade Neâ—…n * Which some take for Chrysolite * or Nepos * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui nâ—…s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fâ—…ciat Because he rouseth and raiseth vs in a morning out of our beds * or Banomania * â—…ibus some read aestaâ—…bus i in Summer * or rather Electris as appeareth a little after * For the perspicuitie and brightnes like vnto glasse * This disease is called Bronchocele or Hernia gutturâ—…s ordinary in Sauoy and those parts about Geneva * To wit after Diaâ—…a 〈◊〉 and Pearles * Capillorâ—… 〈◊〉 * i. Contentious or Victorious * Sarda * Whereof haply they be called Cornallines * For the Greeks call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * These are called yet by Lapidaries Alabandines or AlmaÌ„dines * As one would say more like some ordinary stone than a pâ—…ous gem * A city wherupon it tooke the name and not of Sardinia the Isle as some thinke * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menander in Pedio speaking of the Emeraud and Cornalline * Some take it for our Chrysolith * It is thought to be our Turquois * Thought to be the Almain Chrysolit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Pliny inconsideratly hath turned Myxus * or Citrine Iacinth * Of which name there is Opalus the Amethyst * Gira sole A B * Ebori some say Ebeni i. Ebene * i. Amber died red with the root of Orchanes * A kind of Amiantum or Alume de plume * A kind of Turquo 〈◊〉 C. D E G * Haply our Bezoar H I * Lividior L M N O * As the haire growing in the forhead and such things whereof assay was giuen first to the fire P S T V Z * It taketh the name of the kidnies * Hyophthalmos