Schol. Nicander Alexipharmaca

13b (Hellenistic-Byzantine)

Cerberus is dragged up at Heraclea Pontica and creates the poisonous aconite with his slaver or his vomit.

ἀκόνιτόν φασιν ἐκ τοῦ ἐμέτου τοῦ Κερβέρου φυῆναι. ἱστορεῖται γὰρ τὸν Κέρβερον ἐξ Ἅιδου ἀνενεχθέντα μὴ δύνασθαι τὰς αὐγὰς ὑπομεῖναι τοῦ ἡλίου καὶ ἐμέσαι, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐμέτου ταύτην γενέσθαι τὴν βοτάνην.

DSS no 41.