¹⁰ Thomas (1999), 137–40, has identified allusions to seven Greek and Latin poets in Virgil’s adaptation of this passage alone. Virgil adapts Nicander’s Theriaca for his account of antidotes to snakebite in Georgics 3.414–39, and probably for his vivid botanical description of the curative flower amellus (4.271–80): too little survives of Nicander’s Georgica to establish a link between them.