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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 573 — BOOK XII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TREES.

John Bostock translation

“Curing thirst.” Dioscorides, B. i. c. 148, says that it was so called from, being full of juice, which quenched thirst like water.

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