| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.49 | Plin. Nat. 21.50 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.51 |
We now come to the plants which grow spontaneously, and which are employed as an aliment by most nations, the people of Egypt in particular, where they abound in such vast quantities, that, extremely prolific as that country is in corn, it is perhaps the only one that could subsist without it: so abundant are its resources in the various kinds of food to be obtained from plants.
In Italy, however, we are acquainted with but very few of them; those few being the strawberry, [Note] the tamnus, [Note] the butcher's broom, [Note] the sea [Note] batis, and the garden batis, [Note] known by some persons as Gallic asparagus; in addition to which we may mention the meadow parsnip [Note] and the hop, [Note] which may be rather termed amusements for the botanist than articles of food.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.49 | Plin. Nat. 21.50 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.51 |
