[240] Pliny says that spots of the skin may be removed by ox-gall.
[241] Odyss. vi. 91.
[242] Iliad, ix. 14, and xvi. 4.
[243] Geopon. vii. 6.—Plin. xiv. cap. 21.—Columella, xii. 50. 14.
[244] Arnobius, vii. p. 237.
[245] The word λίτρον in Pollux ought not to have been translated sapo.
[246] Cicer. Ep. Fam. viii. 14.—Pollucis Onom. viii. 9, 39; x. 135.—Ovid. De Medicam. Faciei, ver. 73 et 85.—Phavorini Dictionar. p. 527. Gynesius calls clothes washed with nitrum, νιτρούμενα, nitro perfricata.
[247] Lib. xi. p. 801.
[248] De Mirabil. Auscult. c. 54.
[249] Hist. Mirab. c. 162, p. 216.