Note (45) — BOOK V.

45. Laurel oil.) This was made in different ways. One method was boiling the berries in water when they fall off the tree, which causes them to emit their oil, which is separated by the hands into shells. Others impregnate the oil of unripe olives with cyperus, calamus, and afterwards putting in the tender leaves of the laurel, boil them together. Others add to these bay-berries, till the oil smell sufficiently of them. Others mix with it storax and myrrh. Dioscorides, lib. i. cap. 50.