[3208] This is consistent with fact.
[3209] A work of some kind, (perhaps a play, if the comic writer, Menander, is the person alluded to) the title of which means “the Women Dining together.” Hardouin, with justice, ridicules the notion of Ortelius that this is the name of some place or town.
[3210] The astringency communicated by the tannin which they contain would probably make them useful for dysentery; if at the same time, as Fée says, they are not too exciting, by reason of their essential oil.
[3211] See B. xi. c. 71.
[3212] “Succus seminis.” Sillig has “succus feminis,” apparently a misprint—the only one that has been met with thus far in his elaborate edition.
[3213] It might change the colour of the hair, but for a short time only.
[3214] See B. xv. c. 37.
[3215] Cerates, or adipose or oleaginous plasters.
[3216] In reality they have no such effect.
[3217] “Pterygia.”