Talk:Sextius Niger

A fact from Sextius Niger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 March 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served in honey, but its power to extinguish fires was a myth?

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Just a note that V. Nutton's book on Roman medicine mentions a possibly relevant article in J. Stannard (1965), "Pliny and Roman botany" Isis 56, 420-5, which I haven't seen. N p holmes (talk) 13:46, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]