Præsertim stomacho, pulchrumque creare colorem.
[1401] This is not the case.
[1402] “Vermiculis.” Small worms or maggots.
[1403] “Porrum sectivum.” See B. xix. c. [33].
[1404] Fée thinks that boiled leeks may possibly, with some justice, be ranked among the pectorals.
[1405] This, as Pliny himself here remarks, is a different disease from that previously mentioned in c. 6 of this Book.
[1406] From the Greek συκὴ, “a fig.”
[1407] “Merum.”
[1408] They would be of no utility whatever.
[1409] This is an unfounded statement, Fée says.