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Some things, though they do not cause death, enfeeble the tree as to the production of flowers and scents; thus cabbage and sweet bay have this effect upon the vine. For they say that the vine scents the cabbage and is infected by it. Wherefore the vine shoot, whenever it comes near this plant, turns back and looks away as though the smell were hostile to it. Indeed Androkydes used this fact as an example to demonstrate the use of cabbage against wine, to expel the fumes of drunkenness; for, said he, even when it is alive the vine avoids the smell.'