[2252] See B. viii. c. 57.
[2253] Except, of course, when the mother is in a state of disease.
[2254] See B. xi. c. 96. Dalechamps remarks that Pliny is in error here: this name being properly given to infants which have been put to the breast too soon after child-birth. And so it would appear from the context.
[2255] The “biestings.”
[2256] Amalthæa.
[2257] Dioscorides says “river pebbles.”
[2258] In B. xxv. c. 53.
[2259] From the Greek σχιστὸν, “divided” milk, or “curds.”
[2260] See B. xxi c. 105.
[2261] He perhaps means a sulphate, and not sulphur, which is harmless.