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

Note 198 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.

John Bostock translation

The Latin word “degener” cannot here mean “degenerate,” in our sense of the word, but must merely imply a change of nature in the plant.

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