Note (53) — BOOK V.

53. Susine ointment.) For making this, oil was first boiled with wine, calamus, and myrrh, and after being strained, cardamom was infused in it, til it gave a proper flavour, After this, to three and an half pound of this oil were added the leaves of a thousand lilies, and the whole was stirred with hands anointed with honey. After standing a day and a night, the lilies were squeezed out. Dioscorid. lib. i. c. 63.