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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 606 — ARTICHOKE.

William Johnston translation

Athen. Deipnos. at the end of the second book, p. 70. Salmasius, in his Remarks on Solinus, p. 159, is of opinion that Athenæus wrote κάρδον, not κάρδυον; and the Latins not carduus, but cardus.

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