[2774] The method used in Italy for making bird-lime is very similar at the present day.
[2775] Magos.
[2776] Decandolle was of opinion, that the mistletoe of the Druids was not a viscum, but the Loranthus Europæus, which is much more commonly found on oaks.
[2777] Δρῦς, an “oak.” It is much more probable that it was of Celtic origin.
[2778] Omnia sanantem.
[2779] “Sagum.” Properly, a “military cloak.”
[2780] It was, in comparatively recent times, supposed to be efficacious for epilepsy.
[2781] See end of B. ii.
[2782] Author of a History or Annals of Rome. Nothing further is known of him.
[2783] See end of B. vi.