[1167] From Murgentum, in Sicily. See B. iii. c. 14.
[1168] From Pompeii, afterwards destroyed. See B. iii c. 9.
[1169] Hardouin, as Fée thinks, without good reason, identifies this with the “Arelaca” of Columella.
[1170] Georgics, ii. 99.
[1171] This seems to be the meaning of “ultro solum lætius facit.” These two lines have been introduced by Sillig, from one of the MSS., for the first time.
[1172] Hardouin thinks that it is so called from Tuder, a town of Etruria. See B. iii. c. 19.
[1173] Sillig suggests that the reading here is corrupt, and that Pliny means to say that the vine called Florentia is particularly excellent, and merely to state that the talpona, &c., are peculiar to Arretium: for, as he says, speaking directly afterwards in disparagement of them, it is not likely he would pronounce them “opima,” of “first-rate quality.”
[1174] From “talpa,” a “mole,” in consequence of its black colour.
[1175] “Album.”
[1176] Probably so called from the Etesian winds, which improved its growth.