Of increasing of Houshold'fluffe.

both wish that,and with the other called equestris,men lay,the Scythians will endurthunger and thirst twelve dayes. Hence it appears that Phny translated all this oneof Iheopkrastni. But I think he erred , tor Hippace signifies Cheeien ade of Maresmi:k, and i no herb. Theodorm translated it Equeslrem, as it were a too? like Li-ceri^fE to drive away hunger and thirst. For Hippocrates (i ith, the Scythim shep-herd-eat Hsppace, hut that is Mares Cheese : and elsewhere, The Scythians pourMrres mi k into hollow vessels of wood and (hake it, and that froth-, with churm-ing, and the f t of it they call butter, which iwislns on the top, that wtuch is hea-vy sinks to the bottdm, they separate this and dry it, when it is dry, they call it Hip-pace: the reason is, because Mares milk nourish eth exceedingly, and is as good asCows milk. DiofcorideSy The west Indians use another composition also

To endure hunger and thirst.

Of the herb called Tobacco, namely of the juice thereof, afad the ashes of Cockleshells they make little balls and dry them in the shade, and as they travel for threeor tour dayes they will hold one of them between their under lip and their teeth,and this they fuck continually, and swallow down what they suck, and so all theday they feel neither hunger, thirst,nor weariness ; but we will teach another com-position, w hich Heron mention?, and it was called

The Epimenidian composttionyto endure hunger and thirst.

For it was a medicament that nourished much, and abated thirst, and this was thefood the besiegers of Cities and the besieged also lived on. It was called the Epi-menidian composition, from the Sea-onion called Epimenidinm, that is one of theingredients of that composition ; it was made thus, Thefquil was boiled and wastirwith water, anddryed,and then cut into very small pieces, then mingle sclamum afist part, poppy a fifteenth part, make all these up with honey, as the best to makenp the mass, to mitigate it: divide the whole, as into great Olives, and take oneof these about two of the clock, another about ten; and they felt no hnrt by hun-ger, that used t. There is another composition of the fame, that hath of Athenianselamum half a Sextarius, of honey a half part, of oylea Cotyle, and a Cbæoice ofsweet Almonds mundified: the sesamnm and Almonds must be dried, andground, andwinowed, then the squil must have the outsides taken off, and theroots and leaves must be ent into small pieces, and put into a morter and bruised,till they be well mollified ; then you must make up thesquils with the like quantityofhoney and of oyle, and put all into a pot, and set them in cold, and stir themwell with a wooden ladle, till they be well mingled, when the lump is firm, it isgood to cut it into little morsels, and he that eats one in the morning, another acnight, hath meat enough. This medicament is good for an Army, for it is sweet,and so fills a man and quencheth thirst : we had this in an old Scholiast, a Manu-script ,upon the bock of Heron, in the Vatican Library. I saw the same compositionin Philoy in his fifth'book of wars, where he describes such like other things.

Chap. XXf.

0/ what fruits wines may be made.

Ky bps we shall speak of fruits, of which wines may be made. And first our An-cestors did do thus, but'they had two Wayes ; for some were so t Phy sicks,which are found plentifully in Physick books: others again were for ordinary use,and they were divers, and almost infinite, according as the differences of places^4 Nations arc: for what is granted to one is denyedtOi another. First