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LIBER XXI · CAPUT 33

ONE REMEDY DERIVED FROM THE PESOLUTA

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Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Et pesolutam Aegyptus in hortis serit, coronarum gratia. duo genera eius: femina ac mas; utraque subdita venerem inhiberi, virorum maxime, tradunt.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

The Egyptians also cultivate the pesoluta in their gardens, for chaplets. There are two kinds of this plant, the male and the female: either of them, it is said, placed beneath the person, when in bed, acts as an antaphrodisiac, upon the male sex more particularly.