Note (41) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
41. Crocomagma.) This was the refuse left after the expression of the oil in making the crocine ointment; which, besides retaining some of the virtues of saffron, would also be in some measure impregnated, with the aromatics used in the composition of that ointment. Vide Plin. lib. xxi. cap. 20. et Dioscorid. lib. i. cap. 26.