Conférences sur l'élevage, livrés avant l'Université d'Oxford ; comprendre un tel compte du système de l'agriculture, le traitement des animaux domestiques, l'horticulture &c., poursuivis dans les temps anciens, comme peuvent être recueillies à partir de l'Scriptores rei rusticae, Le Georgics de Virgile, et d'autres autorités classiques, avec avis de la usines mentionnées dans et de la columelle Virgile ; . er.Les lignes suivantes relatives à la columelle dans cette usine, Lactis gustum qua ? Condiat herbaDeletura fugarumJamque quidem fronti signa données suam idcirco profitetur nomine Graio, sont expliqués, par l'établissement d'un

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Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . er.The following lines in Columella relating to this plant, Lactis gustum qua? condiat herbaDeletura quidem fronti data signa fugarumJamque suam idcirco profitetur nomine Graio, are explained, by the property attributed to it of removing the scars left by wounds or ulcers. Pliny, xx. 70. The plant, Sibthorp says, is common on the road sides and amongst rubbish in Greece, and goes at present by the name of Xe-n-lSi. 10. Mandragora, atropa mandragora, mandrake, Quamvis semihominis vesano gramine foeta, Mandragora? pariat flores, (20.) is mentioned, not as a plant to be cultivated, butas growing wild; which is the case with it at pre-sent very generally in the south of Europe. Fl. Gr.232. The resemblance of its roots to the humanfigure has given rise to the various superstitiousnotions concerning it, which have existed bothin ancient and modern times. It is poisonous how-ever, purges violently, and acts as a narcotic.Dioscorides mentions a male and a female AIOCKOYPIAHC Plabe.JXH. GYpecic. ^W &**.&*&« 0, vv^. J*. ~iM. Cou. -v^~j. fX. z leot. viii.] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 275 kind, which, Sibthorp says, are merely varieties, the male being larger and more downy than thefemale; but Pliny distinguishes the male as thewhite variety, and the female as the black, corre-sponding with the spring and autumnal mandra-gora of modern Botanists. In the V.MS, of Dioscorides, so often alluded to, is a curious drawing, which I have transferredto this worke; representing Evpeans, the Goddessof Discovery, presenting in triumph to Dioscoridesthe root of this mandrake, which she has justhad pulled up, whilst the u

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