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Gaius Calvus also in his poems uses laboriosus, not in the ordinary sense of one who toils, but of that on which labour is spent, saying: Fr. 2, Bährens, F.P.R. The hard and toilsome (laboriosum) country he will shun. In the same way Laberius also in the Sisters says: 86, Ribbeck3. By Castor! sleepy (somniculosum) wine! and Cinna in his poems: Fr. 2, Bährens. As Punic Psyllus doth Some such word as handle is to be supplied. the sleepy (somniculosam) asp. The Psylli, according to Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 14, were an African people whose bodies contained a poison deadly to serpents, and gave out an odour which put snakes to flight; see also Nat. Hist. viii. 93; Dio Cassius, li. 14. Psyllus came to be a general term for snake-charmers and healers of snakebites, as in Suetonius, Aug. xvii. 4.
