Note 1876 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN (continued 2)
Annette Susannah Beveridge translation
The Elph. Codex has a note—mutilated in early binding—which is attested by its scribe as copied from Humāyūn’s hand-writing, and is to the effect that once on his way from the Hot-bath, he saw people who had taken poison and restored them by giving lime-juice.
Erskine here notes that the same antidotal quality is ascribed to the citron by Virgil:—
Media fert tristes succos. tardumque saporem Felicis mali, quo non praesentius ullum, Pocula si quando saevae infecere novercae, Miscueruntque herbas et non innoxia verba, Auxilium venit, ac membris agit atra venena. Georgics II. v. 126.
Vide Heyne’s note i, 438.