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

Note 2431 — BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. (continued 3)

John Bostock translation

The writer of certain amatory poems, much admired by the Emperor Tiberius, generally supposed, from the grammatical form of the name, to have been a female. Galen quotes a work “On Cosmetics,” as written by a person of this name.

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