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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 597 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN. (continued 3)

John Bostock translation

The chaff of millet, and not the straw, must evidently be intended here, for he says above that the straw—“culmus”—of millet is generally burnt.

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