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[1240]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 15. 4. The belief was prevalent, however, that milk at all times was a species of medicine. Thus when Timagoras accepted, among other things, eighty cows from the king of Persia, with herdsmen to take care of them, he pretended that he had need of their milk on account of the delicacy of his health: ὧς δὴ πρὸς ἀῤῥωστίαν τινὰ γάλακτος βοείου δεόμενος. Plut. Pelopid. § 30.
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[1244]. Id. i. 141.
[1245]. Id. ii. 205.
[1246]. Id. i. 122.
[1247]. Ξυρὶς, Iris fœtidissima. Dioscor. iv. 22.