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

Note 1716 — BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES.

John Bostock translation

Not an oil, so much as a medicinal preparation. Dioscorides mentions as component parts of it, omphacium, sweet rush, Celtic nard, aspalathus, costus, and must. It received its name from γλεῦκος “must.”

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