[2280]. Florent. ap. Geopon. vi. 8. 1.
[2281]. Dioscor. iii. 48.
[2282]. Id. i. 9.
[2283]. Ἐρυθρόδανον. Dioscor. iii. 60.
[2284]. Dioscor. i. 7. The leaves of this plant were used as a bait for fish at all seasons of the year. Geopon. xx. 24. 1. Damogeron. ap. id. vii. 13. 4; 24. 4. Florent. ap. id. vi. 8. 1. Columell. de Re Rust. xii. 20.
[2285]. Hazelquist, Travels, p. 302.
[2286]. Λιγυστικὸν. Dioscor. iii. 58.
[2287]. Dioscor. ii. 11.
[2288]. Martin Mathée, Notes sur Dioscoride, p. 118.
[2289]. The Greeks on the coast of the Black Sea still esteem the large vine-snail a delicacy, in which they chiefly indulge during Lent. Pallas, Travels in Southern Russia, iv. 247. These delicacies are probably not in season until they begin to fly the Pleiades and seek the shade of the leaves: