322 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



This plant was eaten both as a pot-herb 

 and a salad by the Romans. Pliny notices it 

 in the 8th chapter of his 20th book, and in- 

 forms us that the endive, or garden succory, 

 furnishes many effectual properties in medi- 

 cine ; that the juice of this plant, mingled 

 with rose-oil and vinegar, was used to allay 

 pains in the head; and that when mixed with 

 wine it was thought good for complaints of 

 the liver. 



Some of our writers (says this author) name 

 the wild endive A mbubeia ; and in Egypt 

 they call wild endive dehor him, and the cul- 

 tivated, Seris. 



Horace notices this plant under the name 

 of Cicorea. 



" Me pascunt olivae, 



Me Cicorea, levesque malvse."* 



It is one of the plants with which the magi- 

 cians, in credulous ages, used to endeavour to 

 impose on their too easily seduced believers. 

 They affirmed, that if persons anointed their 

 bodies all over with the juice of this herb 

 mixed with oil, it would make them appear, 

 not only so amiable that they would win the 

 good will and favour of all men, but that 



* Lib. i. Ode 31. 





