Note 412 — MINERAL POISONS. (continued 3)
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The roman poets constantly use it in the plural number, which evidently shews that it was meant to denote other kinds of poisons, or poisons in general; thus Juvenal in the first satire, v. 156.
“Qui dedit ergo tribus patruis Aconita, vehetur
Pensilibus plumis,——”
So again Ovid in the first book of Metamorph, v. 47.
“Lurida terribiles miscent Aconita novercæ.”