[1218]. Dioscor. iv. 157. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 8. 5.
[1219]. Κυνόσβατον. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 8. 5.
[1220]. Dioscor. iii. 53.
[1221]. King Attalus, desirous not to have far to reach in the matter of poisons, cultivated a great variety of them with his own hands in the royal gardens, such as hyoscyamus, hellebore, hemlock, aconite, and dorycnion, of whose virtue and qualities he obtained a thorough knowledge by experiments. Plut. Demet. § 20.
[1222]. Παιωνία. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 8. 6.
[1223]. Μανδράγορας. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 8. 8.
[1224]. Dioscor. iv. 151.
[1225]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 8. 5, sqq. The spleen-wort, (ἀσπλήνον) when designed to produce sterility was collected on a dark night: ἀσελήνου δὲ νύκτος φασι δεῖν αὐτὴν ὀρύσσειν εἰς ἀτόκιον. Dioscor. iii. 151.
[1226]. Cf. Poll. iv. 177.
[1227]. See a witty disquisition on charms in Luc. Philopseud. § 7, and a list of medicinal plants introduced into remedies for the gout. Tragopodag. 138, seq.