thing. But halimon is more potent even than this, for it destroys tree-medick.
Again some things, though they do not cause death, enfeeble the tree as to the production of flavours and scents; thus cabbage and sweet bay have this effect on the vine. For they say that the vine scents the cabbage and is infected[1] by it. Wherefore the vine-shoot,[2] whenever it comes near this plant, turns back and looks away,[3] as though the smell were hostile to it. Indeed Androkydes[4] used this fact as an example to demonstrate the use of cabbage against wine, to expel the fumes of drunkenness; for,[5] said he, even when it is alive, the vine avoids the smell. It is now clear from what has been said how the death of a tree may be caused, how many are the causes of death, and in what several ways they operate.
