| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.61 | Plin. Nat. 21.62 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.63 |
It is not in Egypt only that the perdicium [Note] is eaten; it owes its name to the partridge, [Note] which bird is extremely fond of digging it up. The roots of it are thick and very numerous: and so, too, with the ornithogale, [Note] which has a tender white stalk, and a root half a foot in thickness, bulbous, soft, and
provided with three or four other offsets attached to it. It is generally used boiled in pottage. [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.61 | Plin. Nat. 21.62 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.63 |
