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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 800 — BOOK XXV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.

John Bostock translation

Dioscorides states, somewhat more rationally, that this plant strikes the scorpion with torpor, and that the contact of hellebore revives it.

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