| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 13.43 | Plin. Nat. 13.44 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 13.45 |
In Egypt, too, the capparis [Note] is found, a shrub with a wood
of much greater solidity. The seed of it is a well-known article of food, [Note] and is mostly gathered together with the stalk. It is as well, however, to be on our guard against the foreign kinds; [Note] for that of Arabia has certain deleterious properties, that from Africa is injurious to the gums, and that from Marmarica is prejudicial to the womb and causes flatulence in all the organs. That of Apulia, too, is productive of vomiting, and causes derangement in the stomach and intestines. Some persons call this shrub "cynosbaton," [Note] others, again, "ophiostaphyle." [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 13.43 | Plin. Nat. 13.44 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 13.45 |
