Note 1699 — BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.
John Bostock translation
An essential oil may be extracted from either; it is of acrid taste, green, and aromatic; but does not seem to have been known to the ancients. The berries give by decoction a fixed oil, of green colour, sweet, and odoriferous. The oils in general here spoken of by Pliny as extracted from the laurel, are medicinal oils.