| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 20.6 | Plin. Nat. 20.7 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 20.8 |
There is found also a wild gourd, called "somphos" by the Greeks, empty within (to which circumstance it owes its name), [Note] and long and thick in shape, like the finger: it grows nowhere except upon stony spots. The juice of this gourd, when chewed, is very beneficial to the stomach. [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 20.6 | Plin. Nat. 20.7 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 20.8 |
