[2821] Ajasson remarks that this may probably be useful.
[2822] See B. xxxv. cc. 12, 13.
[2823] “Acetabuli mensurâ” seems a preferable reading to “aceto mensurâ,” which makes no sense.
[2824] See B. xxi. c. 56.
[2825] See B. xviii. c. 17.
[2826] “Subluviem.” The same, probably, as the disease of the fingers which he elsewhere calls “paronychia,” and perhaps identical with whitlow.
[2827] See B. xxiii. c. 13.
[2828] A popular fallacy of Pliny’s time. See B. xi. c. 40.
[2829] Spectres and nightmare.
[2830] The serpent so called.