[207] Already mentioned in c. 10.
[208] See B. xix. c. [47]; and B. xx. c. [57].
[209] This would rather grate the grain than pound it, as Beckmann observes. See his Hist. Inv., vol. i. pp. 147 and 164, Bohn’s Ed., where the meaning of this passage has been commented upon. Gesner, also, in his Lexicon Rusticum, has endeavoured to explain it.
[210] Ruido.
[211] It is surprising to find the Romans, not only kneading their bread with sea-water, but putting in it pounded bricks, chalk, and sand!
[212] Beard chaff; so called, probably, from the sharpness of the points, like needles (acus).
[213] See B. xxxiii. c. 3; where he says, that a fire lighted with this chaff, fuses gold more speedily than one made with maple wood.
[214] The Tartars still employ millet as one of their principal articles of food. They also extract a kind of wine from it.
[215] Virgil alludes to this, Georg. iii. 463.
[216] Panic is still employed more than any other grain in the south of France.