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

Note 1671 — BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.

John Bostock translation

The Spanish olive, Hardouin says. Fée thinks that the name “superba,” “haughty,” is given figuratively, as meaning rough and austere.

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