[127] Tunny cut into slices, and pickled. See B. ix. c. 18.
[128] See B. ix. cc. 40, 67, 74, 83.
[129] See B. viii. c. 48, B. xi. cc. 19, 76, 116, B. xxv. c. 76.
[130] See B. x. c. 86.
[131] Under the name “magi,” he is probably speaking here, not of the ordinary magicians, but the Magi of the East, from whom Democritus largely borrowed.
[132] A piece of wit on the part of our author, in which he seldom indulges.
[133] See B. xi. c. 76.
[134] From “rubus,” a “bramble.”
[135] In B. viii. c. 48. It is not improbable that the “rubetæ” of the ancients were toads.