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

Note 2209 — BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

The use of the word “prodidere” shows that treatises had been written on these abominable subjects. Laïs, Elephantis, and Salpe were probably the “meretrices” to whom he here alludes. See c. 23, and the end of this Book.

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