[512] His piety, apparently, was tainted with adulation.
[513] With the exception of Cato, of course.
[514] See end of B. xiv.
[515] See c. 79 of this Book: also B. xxiii. c. 77, and B. xxix. c. [8].
[516] A mere prejudice, arising from the fact that numerous poisonous plants grew in the countries on the shores of the Euxine. The blood of no animal whatever is an antidote to any poison.
[517] See B. vii. c. 37. An interesting account of his system will be found in B. xxvi. c. [7]. See also B. xxix. c. [5].
[518] See B. xxiii. c. 77.
[519] The four great changes in plants, though not always at the four seasons of the year, are the budding and foliation, the blossoming, the fructification, and the fall of the leaf.
[520] See end of B. xx.
[521] There is little doubt that he alludes to the passage of Æschylus, quoted by Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. ix. c. 15. Τυῤῥήνων γενεὰν φαρμακοποιὸν ἔθνος—“The race of the Tyrrheni, a drug-preparing nation.”