2513 ([return])
[ Pliny notices the efficacy of the flesh of a tortoise against withcraft. In Geoponica i. 14. 8 the living tortoise is prescribed as a charm to preserve vineyards from hail.]
2514 ([return])
[ Hermes makes the cattle walk backwards way, so that they seem to be going towards the meadow instead of leaving it (cp. l. 345); he himself walks in the normal manner, relying on his sandals as a disguise.]
2515 ([return])
[ Such seems to be the meaning indicated by the context, though the verb is taken by Allen and Sikes to mean, ‘to be like oneself’, and so ‘to be original’.]
2516 ([return])
[ Kuhn points out that there is a lacuna here. In l. 109 the borer is described, but the friction of this upon the fireblock (to which the phrase ‘held firmly’ clearly belongs) must also have been mentioned.]
2517 ([return])
[ The cows being on their sides on the ground, Hermes bends their heads back towards their flanks and so can reach their backbones.]