[2563]. Dioscor. i. 128. Herod. iii. 107. Thom. Magist. v. θύωμα, p. 462.
[2564]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 4. 1, sqq. Philost. Vit. Soph. ii. 21. § 2. Ammon, v. λίβανος, p. 89. This gum is now of very inferior quality and value, and was sent in the last century in vast quantities into Muscovy to tan Russia leather. Hazelquist, Travels, p. 297. Of old it seems to have been sacred exclusively to the gods and was daily burnt as a morning sacrifice on their altars. Gœttling, ad Hesiod, p. 162. In the ages preceding the discovery of frankincense, people made use of rosemary for the same purpose. Apuleius, de Virtut. Herb. cap. lxxix. Cf. Fabric. Biblioth. Lat. p. 126. Lomeier, de Lustrat. Vet. Gent. c. xxiv. p. 298. On the plants, fruits, and trees, used in sacrifice, see Saubert. de Sacrificiis, cap. xxiv.
[2565]. Cf. Diodor. Sicul. l. v. t. i. p. 364. Wesseling.
[2566]. Dioscor. i. 79.
[2567]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 4. 7.
[2568]. See also Dioscor. i. 77. A fable concerning the collection of the frankincense occurs in Herod. iii. 117.
[2569]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 4. 7.
[2570]. Paradise Lost, iv. 159-165.
[2571]. Some years’ Travels into Africa and Asia, p. 102. Cf. Chandler, i. 6.
[2572]. Voyage aux Isles Malouines, t. i. p. 155.