Notes on the current edition
Enquiry into Plants
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¹ κοῖλον add. W.
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² See Index: the stalk is specially in question here.
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³ cf. 6. 1. 4 n. ἐκνευρόκαυλα P2Ald., cf. ἔκλευκος, ‘whitish’; ἐννευρόκαυλα conj. Sch. as in 6. 1. 4; but οἷον indicates the coinage of a fresh term. κώνειον seems to be placed in the wrong list.
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4 Plin. 25. 147–150 describes mandragoras, but his descrip- tion is not taken from T. cf. Diosc. 4. 75, where three kinds
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¹ οἷον φυλλ. τὸ λεγ. conj. W.; φυλλ. οἷον τὸ λεγ. Ald.H.
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² I have added ὃν.
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3 μέταλλα U; μέτρα Ald.; ἐν μετάλλοις μέτρα.
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4 cf. 9. 1. 7; Diosc. 3. 80.
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¹ cf. Hdt. 4. 158. ² B.C. 310.
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3 ταύτην δὲ . . . τὸ σίλφιον: text as restored conjecturally by W., chiefly by alteration in the order of the words in Ald.
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4 καλεῖσθαι δὲ γάλα after φύεσθαι in Ald.
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5 In 6. 3. 7 this name is applied to a distinct plant. μαγ. τὸ καὶ conj. Salm.; μαγ. καὶ τὸ P2Ald.H. 6 cf. 6. 3. 2.
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7 τοῦτο conj. Salm.; τούτον UMVAld.; τοῦτον P2.