Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

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Virbius as Dianus

manu et in sublime tolli; siccari in
umbra separation folia, caul em, ra-
dicem. aiunt, si aqua spargatur
triclinium, <in (ins. C. Mayhoff) >

ciliare nullique non morbo mederi. 1 oi be Aibs rj\aKa.Triv, oi be bixpwp.ov, oi be KaXXr;-
colligi debere circa canis ortum ita, aiv, oi be i-mrdpicrov, oi be XrjixrjTpiaoa, [Aiyu-rrTioL
ne luna aut sol conspiciat, favis ante irepicpdeufiddp:, llvdaybpas epvaidK-q-wTpov, Pcopiaioi
et melle terrae ad piamentum datis; KiyKiwdXis, (cod. N. adds oi be (3ep[3evaKap,, oi be
circumscriptam ferro effodi sinistra j Xovcrrpdyu, oi oe KoXovuftiva, oi be oveptribiov,)]

pd(3bovs dvirjffi irrixvaiovs rj Kai pLetgovas, yoivioeibeis,
irepi as t<x cpvXXa 4k diaaTrjudrcov eoiKora. Spvt, ttXtjv
arevwrepa. Kai ijTTOva, evTeTu.-iip.eva oe to; kvkXcx),
vwbyXavKa' (A'C'av Be viropLrjKr]. Xewrriv (XevK'qv codd.
qua maduerit, laetiores convictus C. N.) ■ avdrj wop<f>vpa, XeirTd. ravTrjs t<x <pvXXo.
fieri, adversus serpentes conteritur i Kai 17 pi£a, TroTii'bp.eva p.er' olvov Kai KaTaTrXaaab-
ex vino. J p.eva, woieiirpbs eprrerd (A. Lacuna cj. 7rp6s epTrrjTas

Cp. Isid. orig. 17. 9- 55, Macer I Kai epvanreXaTa) ■ 7rp6s be iKTepov ret (pvXXa, baov
Floridus {i.e. Odo Magdunensis: < bXK-qv, /xera XtdavcoTov TpiufibXov avv olvov wa-
ste. W. S. Teuffel—L. Schwabe Xatov Kai deppLov (so cod, N. and A. Lacuna. The
History of Roman Literature5 trans. editt. omit Kai 6epp.ov) kotvXt} pud vqareL eep' i)p.epas

G. C. W. Warr London 1891 i. reo-aapas (so cod. C. rjp.epas p.' vulg.) -Kivbp.eva '
424) de virtutibus herbarum ed. oibrjp.aTa re xpovia Kai (pXeyp-ovas KaranXaadevra

H. Ranzovius Lipsia; 1590 1. 66 irpavvei' Kai pvirapd e\Kij Kadaipei' exJ/yjOelaa de
' de verbena.' bXij criiv oivui eaxdpas rds ev Trapicrdp.Lots wepipprjTTti,

Kai vopids ras ev CTopari dvayapyapi£op.evri e^iaTTjcn.
'paivbp.evbv re ev avp.iroo'ioLS to dirb^peyp.a evbiayw-
yoTepovs iaropeiTai iroielv ' biboTai oe TpLTa'tfovai
■RLelv to TpiTOv ybvv awb Trjs yrjs ffvv rots TrepiKeip.e-
vols (pvXXois, TeTapTatfovffL be to TeTapTov. Ka\ovo~i
be avTrjv iepdv f3oTavr)v bid to evxpr)(TTOV & TOls
Kadappiois elvai eis Trepidp.p.aTa.

Cp. L. Apuleius ('Apuleius Barbaras': see W.
S. Teuffel—L. Schwabe op. eit. 1892 ii. 244 f.) de
medicaminibus herbarum 4 ' nomina et virtutes
hieras botanes' in J. C. G. Ackermann Parabilium
medicamentorum scriptores antiqui Xorimbergae et
Altorfii 1788 pp. 151 ff., 309 f.

C. Sprengel in his note on the passage from Dioskorides identifies irepicTepeuv bpffbs
with verbena officinalis, irepiaTepeoiv {itttios with verbena supina. And these identifications
are borne out by the coloured drawings of Vindob. Med. Gr. 1 (fol. 26S recto rrepiCTe-
peooN op8[oc] = my fig. 301; fol. 269 recto nepiCTepeojN YTT[T|0C] = m.v %• 3°2)-
See also the hand-painted plates of J. Sibthorp Flora Grceca Londini 1827 vi. 43 f. pi. 553
verbena nodiflora, ib. 44 pi. 554 verbena supina.

On the folk-lore of vervain consult A. de Gubernatis La Mythologie des Plantes Paris
1882 ii. 367—369, H. Friend Flozuers and Flower Lore London 1883 i. 171, 313, 315,
ii. 429 f., 529 f., 534, 545, 547 f., 591, 607, 609 f., 665, R. Folkard Plant Loi-e, Legends,
and Lyrics London 1884 pp. 572—575 and Index p. 609, T. F. Thiselton Dyer The
Folk-Lore of Plants London 1889 pp. 56, 101, 152, 282, 284 f., Schrader Reallex. p. 179,
S. Seligmann Der bose Blick und Verwandtes Berlin 1910 i. 261, 285, 386, 394 ft., 399,
ii. 6, 60 f., 102 ; J". Britten—R. Holland A Dictionary of English Plant-Names London
1878 i. 18 'Ashthroat,' 39 'Berbine,' 115 'Columbine,' 1879 ii. 224 'Grass, Pigeon's,'
264 'Holy Herb,' 282 'Juno's Tears,' 333 'Mercury's Moist Blood,' 1884 iii. 432
' Simpler's Joy,' 480 'Vervain' and 'Vervain, Base or Flat,' J. Cameron The Gaelic
Names of Plants- Glasgow 1900 p. 73 f., P. Sebillot Le Folk-Lore de France Paris 1905
ii. 303, 1906 iii. 472, 476 f., 483 f., 494, K. Simrock Handbucli der Deutschen Mythologie5
Bonn 1878 p. 272 f.

Here it is in point to observe that both Pliny and Dioskorides compare the leaves of
vervain with those of the oak (quercus, bpvs), associate the plant with lupiter (Plin. nat.