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1 "Cicuta." Identified with the Conium maculatum of Linnæus, Common hemlock or Keghs. It grows in the vicinity of Athens, and probablv formed the basis of the poisons with which that volatile people "recompensed," as Fée remarks, the virtues and exploits of their philosophers and generals. Socrates, Potion, and Philopœmen, are said to have been poisoned with hemlock; but in the case of Socrates, it was probably com- bined with opium and other narcotics. See B. xiv. cc. 7, 28, and B. xxiii. c. 23.
2 He has more than once stated, that it is not his object to enter into a description of poisons.
3 Fée doubts if it is possible to eat it, boiled even, with impunity
4 (See B. xiv. cc. 7, 28 , and B. xxiii. c. 23.
5 A very dangerous use of it,Desfontaines thinks.
6 Desfontaines says that it is still employed in various ways when the milk is in excess.
7 By causing those organs to waste away.
8 The province of Asia Minor.
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- Smith's Bio, Anaxila'us
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- LSJ, ἀριστο-λόχεια
- Lewis & Short, ăristŏlŏchĭa
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