[1605]. The fruit of the terebinth was ground, like the olive, in a mill, for the making of oil. The kernels were used in feeding pigs, or for fuel. Geop. ix. 18.
[1606]. Cf. Cato, De Re Rust. 66. This clear pure oil, sometimes rendered odoriferous by perfumes, (Il. ψ. 186,) was chiefly employed in lubricating the body. Thus we find the virgin in Hesiod anointing her limbs with olive-oil to defend herself from the winter’s cold. Opp. et Dies, 519, sqq.
[1607]. Vitruv. vi. 9.
[1608]. Geop. ix. 18.
[1609]. Geop. ix. 19, seq. iii. 13. Dioscor. i. 140.
[1610]. Geop. x. 10–70. Cf. Mazois, Pal. de Scaurus, p. 182, seq.
[1611]. Palladius, iv. 10.
[1612]. We find mention in modern times of a species of pomegranate, the kernels of which are without stones, peculiar apparently to the island of Scio. “It is usual to bring them to table, in a plate, sprinkled with rose-water.” Chandler, i. 58.
[1613]. Cf. Philost. Icon. t. 31. p. 809. ii. 2. p. 812.
[1614]. Ficus virides servari possunt vel in melle ordinatæ, ne se invicem tangant, vel singulæ intra viridem cucurbitam clausæ, locis unicuique cavatis, et item tessera, quæ secatur, inclusis, suspensa ea cucurbita, ubi non sit ignis vel fumus. Pallad. iv. 10.