[2260]. Saligniac. Itin. Hierosol. t. iv. c. vii.
[2261]. Athen. xiv. 70. Ἡ Κύπρος Δ’ ἔχει πελείας διαφόρους.
[2262]. Dapper, Description des Isles de l’Archipel. p. 460. Travellers make mention of a species of white nightingale in Abyssinia with a tail two palms in length. Jerome Lobo, Voyage d’Abissinie, i. 89.
[2263]. Athen. vii. 23.
[2264]. Id. ix. 8.
[2265]. Among the exports of this country gold, found in a virgin state, near the surface of the earth, was at one time included: aurum ... invenitur aliquando in summa tellure protinus, rara felicitate: ut nuper in Dalmatia principatu Neronis, singulis diebus etiam quinquagenas libras fundens. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 21.
[2266]. Thus wild carrots have in modern times been exported from Crete for medicinal purposes. Prosper. Alpin. de Medicin. Ægypt. iv. 11. p. 306.
[2267]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 5. 3. Damogeron, ap. Geopon. vii. 13. 4. Florent. ap. id. vi. 8. 1. Leontin. ap. id. xi. 21. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxi. 7.
[2268]. Dioscor. i. 19.
[2269]. Id. i. 9.