[2287] So called from ἀμπέλος, a “vine;” either because it was applied to vines to kill the insects, or because its admixture with the soil was favourable to the cultivation of the vine.
[2288] “Washes for beautifying the eye-brows.” See B. xxi. c. 73, B. xxiii. c. 51, and B. xxxiii. c. [34].
[2289] Cimolian earth, known in modern chemistry as Cimolite, is not a cretaceous earth, but an aluminous silicate, still found in the island of Kimoli, or Argentiera, one of the Cyclades; See B. iv. c. 23. Tournefort describes it as a white chalk, very heavy, tasteless, and dissolving in water. It is found also at Alexandrowsk in Russia.
[2290] See Chapter [25] of this Book.
[2291] See B. xxxi. c. 46.
[2292] See B. xii. c. 51.
[2293] See B. v. c. 28.
[2294] Beckmann thinks that this may have been our common chalk. Vol. II. p. 105.
[2295] This seems to be the meaning of “crescit in macerando.”
[2296] A.U.C. 535, it is supposed.