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1 More particularly in B. xvii. cc. 2 and 3, and B. xviii. cc. 57–75.
2 The Linum usitatissimum of Linnæus.
3 What would he have said to the application of the powers of steam, and the electric telegraph?
4 Possibly Galerius Trachalus, Consul A.D. 68, a relation of Galeria Fundana, the wife of the Emperor Vitellius.
5 Governor of Egypt in the reign of Nero, A.D. 55. He is mentioned by Seneca, Quæst. Nat. B. iv. c. 2, and is supposed to have written a work on Egypt and his journeys in that Country.
6 Or, as Sillig suggest, "after ill treatment such as this, that it arrives at the sea." The passage is evidently defective.
7 In B. vii. c. 57. He alludes to Dædalus.
8 He probably has in view here the imprecation uttered by Horace:—
"Illi robur, et æs triplex
Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit pelago ratem."—Odes, i. 3.
At the present day hemp forms a material part in the manufacture of
sails. In addition to flax, the ancients employed broom, rushes, leather,
and various skins of animals for the purpose.
9 In c. 76.
10 On the contrary, as Fée observes, the cultivation of flax is attended with the greatest difficulties.
11 See B. xvii. c. 7. Virgil says, Georg. i. 77, "Urit enim lini campum seges"—but in the sense, as Fée remarks, of exhausting, not scorching the soil.
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- Harper's, Faventia
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CADURCI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CUMAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), FAVE´NTIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PELU´SIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TE´NTYRA
- Smith's Bio, Hemina, L. Ca'ssius
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- Lewis & Short, Balbillus
- Lewis & Short, Cūmae
- Lewis & Short, antīquĭtas