CHAP. 30.—SAPA: SEVEN REMEDIES.
Sapa[2962] has a close affinity with wine, being nothing else but must boiled down to one third: that which is prepared from white must is the best. It is used medicinally in cases of injuries inflicted by cantharides, the buprestis,[2963] the pine caterpillars known as pityocampæ,[2964] salamanders, and all venomous bites and stings. Taken with onions it has the effect of bringing away the dead fœtus and the after-birth. According to Fabianus, it acts as a poison, if taken by a person fasting, immediately after the bath.[2965]