[2694] B. iii. c. 4.
[2695] “Spiras.” It seems to have been the opinion of the ancients that the internal knots of the wood are formed spirally. Such is not the fact, as they consist of independent layers.
[2696] Centra.
[2697] He takes this account from Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. v. c. 3.
[2698] The greatest height, Fée says, of any tree known, is that of the palm, known as ceroxylon; it sometimes attains a height of 250 feet. Adanson speaks of the baobab as being 90 feet in circumference.
[2700] See B. xix. c. 6.
[2701] A spot enclosed in the Campus Martius, for the resort of the people during the Comitia, and when giving their votes.
[2702] “Diribitorium.” This was the place, probably, where the diribitores distributed to the citizens the tabellæ, with which they voted in the Comitia, or else, as Wunder thinks, divided the votes, acting as “tellers,” in the modern phrase.
[2703] Caligula.