[612] Hellebore is no longer used, except in veterinary medicine.
[613] Petronius Arbiter says that the philosopher Chrysippus used it.
[614] M. Livius Drusus. See B. xxviii. c. [42], and B. xxxiii. c. 6.
[615] Anticyra in Phocis was a peninsula, not an island.
[616] In B. xxii. c. 64.
[617] In B. xix. c. 18.
[618] Hence the Greek name “ectomon.”
[619] “Tenuior.”
[620] This is the meaning assigned by Hardouin to the word “ramulos.” Holland renders it “small shoots” or “slips,” and he is probably right.
[621] “Squama æris.”