Note (55) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
55. Sprinkled on dry.) The words as they stand in the text, seem capable of no proper sense. Misy quoque et galla, si paribus portionibus misceantur, corpus consumunt: eaque vel arida inspergere licet, vel excepta cadmia, illinere. I have therefore taken the liberty to transpose cadmia, and place it after galla for the cadmia is as dry as the other two, and therefore could not serve to bring them to any consistence; but still there seems to be a word wanting after excepta, to denote the substance for uniting them.