Kitap 15
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Theophrastus, also, in his treatise on Scents, says, that some perfumes are made of flowers; as, for instance, from roses, and white violets, and lilies, which last is called σούσινον. There are also those which are extracted from mint and ground thyme, and gopper, and the crocus; of which the best is procured in Aegina and Cilicia. Some, again, are made of leaves, as those made from myrrh and the œnanthe; and the wild vine grows in Cyprus, on the mountains, and is very plentiful; but no perfume is made of that which is found in Greece, because that has no scent. Some perfumes, again, are extracted from roots; as is that made from the iris, and from spikenard, and from marjoram, and from zedoary.
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Now, that the ancients were very much addicted to the use of perfumes, is plain from their knowing to which of our limbs each unguent was most suitable. Accordingly, Antiphanes, in his Thoricians, or The Digger, says— A. He really bathes— B. What then? A. In a large gilded tub, and steeps his feet And legs in rich Egyptian unguents; His jaws and breasts he rubs with thick palm-oil, And both his arms with extract sweet of mint; His eyebrows and his hair with marjoram, His knees and neck with essence of ground thyme. And Cephisodorus, in his Trophonius, says— A. And now that I may well anoint my body, Buy me some unguents, I beseech you, Xanthias, Of roses made and irises. Buy, too, Some oil of baccaris for my legs and feet. B. You stupid wretch! Shall I buy baccaris, And waste it on your worthless feet? Anaxandrides, too, in his Protesilaus, says— Unguents from Peron, which but yesterday He sold to Melanopus,—very costly, Fresh come from Egypt; which he uses now To anoint the feet of vile Callistratus. And Theopompus also mentions this perfumer, Peron, in his Admetus, and in the Hedychares. Antiphanes, too, says in his Antea— I left the man in Peron's shop, just now, Dealing for ointments; when he has agreed, He'll bring you cinnamon and spikenard essence.
