Note 270:1 — SAFFRON.
Reading edition
"Cilician," or "Corycean," were the established classical epithets to use when speaking of the Saffron. Cowley quotes—
"Corycii pressura Croci"—Lucan;
"Ultima Corycio quæ cadit aura Croco"—Martial;
and adds the note—"Omnes Poetæ hoc quasi solenni quodam Epitheto utuntur. Corycus nomen urbis et montis in Cilicia, ubi laudatissimus Crocus nascebatur."—Plantarum, lib. i, 49.