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

Note 2974 — BOOK XVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.

John Bostock translation

Fée suggests that Pliny may have here misunderstood a passage in Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. ii. 8, with reference to the planting of the fig.

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