[3171] The festivals of Ceres. The devotees, though obliged to abstain from meat, were allowed the use of this garum, it would appear.
[3172] Gesner proposes to read “non carêntibus,” “with scales”—fishes without scales being forbidden to the Jews by the Levitical Law. See Lev. c xi. ver. 10. It is, most probably, Pliny’s own mistake.
[3173] See B. xxvii. c. 2.
[3174] At the end of c. 42.
[3175] He alludes to its decrepitation in flame.
[3176] Pharnaces caused the body of his father Mithridates to be deposited in brine, in order to transmit it to Pompey.
[3177] He uses the word “pterygia” here, as applied to the whole of the body—“totius corporis”—in its two distinct senses, a hangnail or excrescence on the fingers, and a web or film on the eyes.
[3178] In c. 23, he has said much the same of cold water.
[3179] “Sale et sole.”
[3180] This passage would come more naturally after the succeeding one.