CHAP. 31. (26.)—THE CORNEL. THE LENTISK.
The same degree of care is expended also on the cultivation
of the cornel [Note] and the lentisk; [Note] that it may not be thought,
forsooth, that there is anything that was not made for the
craving appetite of man! Various flavours are blended to-
gether, and one is compelled to please our palates by the aid
of another—hence it is that the produce of different lands
and various climates are so often mingled with one another.
For one kind of food it is India that we summon to our
aid, and then for another we lay Egypt under contribution,
or else Crete, or Cyrene, every country, in fact: no, nor does
man stick at poisons [Note] even, if he can only gratify his longing
to devour everything: a thing that will be still more evident
when we come to treat of the nature of herbs.
