[2307]. Dioscor. ii. 194.
[2308]. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 47. xvi. 66.
[2309]. Id. xix. 26.
[2310]. Dioscor. ii. 166.
[2311]. Strab. v. t. i. p. 372. Casaub. Plin. Nat. Hist. xviii. 11.
[2312]. Αἱ ὕλαι τοσαύτην ἔχουσι βάλανον, ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τῶν ἐντεῦθεν ὑοφορβίων ἡ Ῥώμη τρέφεται τὸ πλέον. Strab. v. 1. t. i. p. 352. From other parts of Italy a similar supply was obtained. “The forest of Lucania, whose acorns fattened large droves of wild hogs, afforded, as a species of tribute, a plentiful supply of cheap and wholesome meat. During five months of the year a regular allowance of bacon was distributed to the poorer citizens; and the annual consumption of the capital, at a time when it had much declined from its former lustre, was ascertained, by an edict of Valentinian the Third, at three millions six hundred and twenty-eight thousand pounds.” Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, v. 281.
[2313]. Dioscor. i. 97.
[2314]. Strab. v. 1. t. i. 352. Plin. Nat. Hist. viii. 7. Columell. de Re Rust. vii. 2. Martial. xiv. 155.
[2315]. Strab. v. 1. t. i. p. 352.
[2316]. Id. v. 1. t. i. p. 353.