CHAP. 35.—FIFTEEN VARIETIES OF ANTISPODOS.
The substance called “antispodos”[1649] is produced from the ashes of the fig-tree or wild fig, or of leaves of myrtle, together with the more tender shoots of the branches. The leaves, too, of the wild olive[1650] furnish it, the cultivated olive, the quince-tree, and the lentisk; unripe mulberries also, before they have changed their colour, dried in the sun; and the foliage of the box, pseudo-cypirus,[1651] bramble, terebinth and œnanthe.[1652] The same virtues have also been found in the ashes of bull-glue[1653] and of linen cloth. All these substances are burnt in a pot of raw earth, which is heated in a furnace, until the earthenware is thoroughly baked.