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1 The servant who pretasted the dishes at a king's table to make certain that none of them was poisoned; cf. Athenaeus, 171 b ff. On the collegium praegustatorum at Rome see Furneaux on Tacitus, Annals, xii. 66. 5 and Class. Phil. xxvii, p. 160.
2 The aromatic bark of various species of Cinnamomum, especially C. zeylanicum Breyne, imported from India.
3 As an impot from north-eastern India (probably meant here), the rootstock of spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi DC.
4 The leaves of a plant of uncertain identity that grew in the Far East, perhaps Indian patchouli, Pogostemon Patchouly Pellet., or perhaps a type of cinnamon; cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxiii. 93.
5 Probably here sweet flag, Acorus calamus L.
6 Cf. Pliny's frequent and indignant remarks, e.g. Nat. Hist. xii. 29 and 83; also Seneca, Qu. Nat. vii. 30-31.
7 Cf. Mor. 493 f; Plato, Laws, 840 d; Oppian, Cyn. i. 378.
8 Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist. x. 171; Philo, 48 (p. 123); Aelian, De Natura Animal. ix. 63; Oppian, Hal. i. 473 ff.
9 But see Oppian, Cyn. iii. 146 ff.
10 Cf. Plato, Laws, 836 c; but see Pliny, Nat. Hist. x. 166; Aelian, De Natura Animal. xv. 11; Varia Hist. i. 15; al.
11 See Barber and Butler on Propertius, iii. 7. 21.
12 Probably a brief lacuna should be assumed.
13 The story of Hylas is related by Theocritus, xiii, Apollonius Rhodius, i. 1207-1272, Propertius, i, 20; al.
14 The Argonauts.
15 The famous shrine in Boeotia.
16 On the formula see Robinson and Fluck, ‘Greek Love Names’ (Johns Hopkins Archaeol. Stud. xxiii, 1937).
17 Reiske acutely observes that this is presumably an annotation of Plutarch himself, speaking not from Gryllus' character, but from his own. Since Odysseus, Achilles, and Gryllus were contemporaries, it would hardly be surprising that the inscription should still be there. And if it were, how would Gryllus know?
18 See Gow on Theocritus, i. 86; Bergen Evans, op. cit. 101 f., and on the ‘vileness’ of animals, p. 173. For the general problem see, e.g., J. Rosenbaum, Geschichte der Lustseuche im Altertume (Berlin, 1904), pp. 274 ff.
19 Cf. Frazer on Apollodorus, iii. 1. 4 (L.C.L., vol. i, pp. 305-307); Philo, 66 (p. 131).
20 ‘Goat Pans’; cf. Hyginus, fable 155; Mela, i. 8. 48.
21 See Frazer on Apollodorus, iii. 5. 8 (L.C.L., vol. i, p. 347).
22 See Frazer on Apollodorus, Epitome, i. 20 (L.C.L., vol. ii, p. 148); Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. ‘Centaurs.’
23 But see, e.g., Aelian, De Natura Animal. xv. 14.