Note 231 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.
John Bostock translation
A. ii. s. 9, l. 4. “Ego hinc artoptam ex proxumo utendam peto.” It is thought by some commentators, that the word used by Pliny here was, in reality, “Artoptasia,” a female baker; and that he alludes to a passage in the Aulularia, which has now perished.