Note 3143 — BOOK XXIII. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
The juice (if, indeed, Pliny intends to specify it as an ingredient) will not, as Fée remarks, combine with oil. Dioscorides says, B. i. c. 180, that the leaves are bruised and applied with oil to burns.