The commoner kinds of oil, too, are mixed with those of myrrh and laurel, to which are added sampsuchum, lilies, fenugreek, myrrh, cassia,[714] nard,[715] sweet-rush, and cinnamon.[716] There is an oil, too, made of the common quince and the sparrow quince, called melinum, as we shall have occasion to mention hereafter;[717] it is used as an ingredient in unguents, mixed with omphacium, oil of cyprus, oil of sesamum,[718] balsamum,[719] sweet-rush, cassia, and abrotonum.[720] Susinum[721] is the most fluid of them all: it is made of lilies, oil of balanus, calamus, honey, cinnamon, saffron,[722] and myrrh; while the unguent of cyprus[723] is compounded of cyprus, omphacium and cardamum, calamus, aspalathus,[724] and abrotonum. There are some persons who, when making unguent of cyprus, employ myrrh also, and panax:[725] the best is that made at Sidon, and the next best that of Egypt: care must be taken not to add oil of sesamum: it will keep as long as four years, and its odour is strengthened by the addition of cinnamon. Telinum[726] is made of fresh olive-oil, cypirus,[727] calamus, melilote,[728] fenugreek, honey, marum,[729] and sweet marjoram. This last was the perfume most in vogue in the time of the Comic poet Menander: a considerable time after that known as “megalium” took its place, being so called as holding the very highest rank;[730] it was composed of oil of balanus, balsamum, calamus, sweet-rush, xylobalsamum,[731] cassia, and resin. One peculiar property of this unguent is, that it requires to be constantly stirred while boiling, until it has lost all smell: when it becomes cold, it recovers its odour.[732] There are some single essences also which, individually, afford unguents of very high character: the first rank is due to malobathrum,[733] and the next to the iris of Illyricum and the sweet marjoram of Cyzicus, both of them herbs. There are perfumers who sometimes add some few other ingredients to these: those who use the most, employ for the purpose honey, flour of salt, omphacium, leaves of agnus,[734] and panax, all of them foreign ingredients.[735] The price of unguent[736] of cinnamon is quite enormous; to cinnamon there is added oil of balanus, xylobalsamum, calamus, sweet-rush, seeds of balsamum, myrrh, and perfumed honey: it is the thickest in consistency of all the unguents; the price at which it sells ranges from thirty-five to three hundred denarii per pound. Unguent[737] of nard,[738] or foliatum, is composed of omphacium or else oil of balanus, sweet-rush, costus,[739] nard, amomum,[740] myrrh, and balsamum.