ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Fenestella,[2124] Fabianus,[2125] Virgil,[2126] Corn. Valerianus,[2127] Celsus,[2128] Cato the Censor,[2129] Saserna[2130] father and son, Scrofa,[2131] M. Varro,[2132] D. Silanus,[2133] Fabius Pictor,[2134] Trogus,[2135] Hyginus,[2136] Flaccus Verrius,[2137] Græcinus,[2138] Atticus Julius,[2139] Columella,[2140] Massurius Sabinus,[2141] Tergilla,[2142] Cotta Messalinus,[2143] L. Piso,[2144] Pompeius Lenæus,[2145] Maccius Plautus,[2146] Flavius,[2147] Dossenus,[2148] Scævola,[2149] Ælius,[2150] Ateius Capito,[2151] Sextius Niger,[2152] Vibius Rufus.[2153] FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Aristotle,[2154] Democritus,[2155] King Hiero,[2156] King Attalus Philometor,[2157] Archytas,[2158] Xenophon,[2159] Amphilochus[2160] of Athens, Anaxipolis[2161] of Thasos, Apollodorus[2162] of Lemnos, Aristophanes[2163] of Miletus, Antigonus[2164] of Cymæ, Agathocles[2165] of Chios, Apollonius[2166] of Pergamus, Aristander[2167] of Athens, Bacchius[2168] of Miletus, Bion[2169] of Soli, Chæreas[2170] of Athens, Chæristus[2171] of Athens, Diodorus[2172] of Priene, Dion[2173] of Colophon, Epigenes[2174] of Rhodes, Euagon[2175] of Thasos, Euphronius[2176] of Athens, Androtion[2177] who wrote on Agriculture, Æschrion[2178] who wrote on Agriculture, Lysimachus[2179] who wrote on Agriculture, Dionysius[2180] who translated Mago,[2181] Diophanes[2182] who made an Epitome of the work of Dionysius, Asclepiades[2183] the Physician, Erasistratus[2184] the Physician, Commiades[2185] who wrote on the preparation of Wines, Aristomachus[2186] who wrote on the same subject, Hicesius[2187] who wrote on the same subject, Themiso[2188] the Physician, Onesicritus,[2189] King Juba.[2190] BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES. CHAP. 1.—COUNTRIES THAT HAVE NO TREES. We have given the precedence in this account to the fruit-trees and others which, by their delicious juices, first taught man to give a relish to his food and the various aliments requisite for his sustenance, whether it is that they spontaneously produce these delightful flavours, or whether we have imparted them by the methods of adoption and intermarriage,[2191] thus bestowing a favour, as it were, upon the very beasts and birds. The next thing, then, would be to speak of the glandiferous trees, the trees which proffered the earliest nutriment to the appetite of man, and proved themselves his foster-mothers in his forlorn and savage state—did I not feel myself constrained on this occasion to make some mention of the surprise which I have felt on finding by actual experience what is the life of mortals when they inhabit a country that is without either tree or shrub.