[2551] See B. x. c. 15.
[2552] In B. x. c. 26.
[2553] Or Youth, in the Eighth Region of the City.
[2554] See B. ii. c. 53.
[2555] An ancient divinity, who is supposed to have presided over childbirth. See Plutarch, Quæst. Rom. 52.
[2556] In the Saturio probably, quoted by Festus, and now lost. The aborigines of Canada, and the people of China and Tartary, hold whelps’ flesh in esteem as a great delicacy.
[2557] “Toxica.”
[2558] Of remedies classified according to the different maladies.
[2559] In B. xi. c. 76.
[2560] The ferret, most probably.