[1447]. Cf. Sibth. Flor. Græc. tab. 368.
[1448]. Dioscor. iii. 53. Geop. xii. 25. 4.
[1449]. Geop. xii. 24.
[1450]. The rose-coloured lotus was said by the poet Pancrates to have been produced from the blood of the lion slain by the Emperor Adrian. Athen. xv. 21.
[1451]. Athen. iii. 1.
[1452]. Nicander in Georgicis ap. Athen. iii. 1.
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