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The following are a few of a different class, which, as not containing any thing particularly disagreeable to the taste of cattle, are frequently eaten by them to their injury. The agricultural student should make himself perfectly acquainted with those. CICUTA virosa. COWBANE. Linnaeus observes, that cattle have died in consequence of eating the roots.
Take bond, like the banker Nerius, for ten thousand sesterces; it will not signify: add the forms of Cicuta, so versed in the knotty points of law: add a thousand obligations: yet this wicked Proteus will evade all these ties.
CELANDINE. The yellow juice of this plant is extremely acrid and narcotic. It is not at all like any plant used for culinary purposes, and therefore there is not any great danger likely to arise from its being confounded with any useful vegetable. CICUTA virosa. COWBANE. Two boys and six girls, who found some roots of this plant in a water-meadow, ate of them.
Three cups make the common quantity, so slightly impregnated, that, perhaps, they might be tinged with the Athenian cicuta, and produce less effects than these letters charge upon tea. Our author proceeds to show yet other bad qualities of this hated leaf.
Was not Socrates who was preferred by Apollo, above all the wise men in the world, by envy and malice of wicked persons impoysoned with the herbe Cicuta, as one that corrupted the youth of the countrey, whom alwaies be kept under by correction?
You are aware of the fact, that material substances, as well inorganic as organic, are constantly giving off into the atmosphere minute particles, which we call odors, and which reveal to us their quality. The rose and nightshade, the hawthorn and cicuta fill the air around them with odors which our bodily senses instantly perceive. And it is the same with animals and men.
'Three cups, he says, 'make the common quantity, so slightly impregnated that, perhaps, they might be tinged with the Athenian cicuta, and produce less effects than these letters charge upon tea. Works, vi. 24. To Garrick might be applied what Johnson said of Swift: 'He was frugal by inclination, but liberal by principle. Works, viii. 222. See post, under March 30, 1783.
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