Note 90 — Chapter III · Pliny’s Natural History
Reading edition
Bk. xxvi, ch. 60. “Experti adfirmavere plurumum referre, si virgo inponat nuda ieiuna ieiuno et manu supina tangens dicat; ‘Negat Apollo pestem posse crescere cui nuda virgo restinguat,’ atque ita retrorsa manu ter dicat totiensque despuant ambo.”