[2212] “Salivam.”
[2213] See B. xx. c. 2.
[2214] See B. xxx. c. 10. Latreille has written a very able treatise on the Buprestis of the ancients, and considers it to belong to the family of Cantharides. Annales du Museum d’histoire Naturelle, Vol. xix. p. 129, et seq.
[2215] Convolvulus doryenium; see B. xxi. c. 105, and B. xxiii. c. 18.
[2216] “Œsypum.” See B. xxx. c. 23.
[2217] Possibly the Epic writer of that name, mentioned by Ovid, Seneca, Quintilian, and Velleius Paterculus.
[2218] “Fascia.” Either a stomacher, or a fillet for the head.
[2219] The mention of lightning here, Hardouin seems to look upon as an interpolation.
[2220] In B. vii. c. 13.
[2221] Columella describes this practice in verse, in B. x., and in B. xi. c. 3. Ælian also mentions it.