[2581] Or “chersydri,” “amphibious.”
[2582] Or “starred lizard”—“stellio.” In reality it is not poisonous.
[2583] See B. x. c. 86. Some kind of starred lizard, or an eft or newt perhaps, was thus called: but in most respects it appears to be entirely a fabulous animal.
[2584] See B ii. c. 63.
[2585] He probably alludes to the Magi of Persia here, as most of the stories about the salamander appear to bear the aspect of an Eastern origin.
[2586] See B. xxii. c. 33.
[2587] “Cybium.” See B. ix. c. 18. Dioscorides says the plant cnecos, described by Pliny in B. xxi. c. 107.
[2588] See B. xxv. c. 18, and B. xxvii. c. 77.
[2589] See B. xvi. c. 92, and B. xxvi. cc. 37, 66.
[2590] “Hereupon peradventure it is that in collices and cockbroths we use to seeth pieces of gold, with an opinion to make them thereby more restorative.”—Holland.