PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



vertex summus lacrimam continet iucundi saporis 

 acanthicen masticen appellatam. 



97 LVII. Et cactos quoque in Sicilia tantum nascitur, 

 suae proprietatis et ipse. in terra serpunt caules a 

 radice emissi, lato folio et spinoso. caules vocant 

 cactos, nec fastidiunt in cibis inveteratos quoque. 

 unum autem caulem rectum habet ^ quem vocant 

 pternica, eiusdem suavitatis, sed vetustatis inpa- 

 tientem. semen ei ^ lanuginis quam pappum vocant, 

 quo detracto et cortice ^ teneritas similis cerebro 

 palmae est. vocant ascalian. 



98 LVIII. Tribulus non nisi in pahistribus nascitur. 

 dura * res ahbi iuxta Nilum et Strymonem amnes 

 excipitur in cibos, inclinatus in vadum, folio ^ ad 

 effigiem ulmi, pediculo longo. at in reliquo orbe 



^ habet Schneider, Detlefsen, Mayhoff : habent codd. 



* Post ei fortasse laiet lacuna. 



' et cortice codd. et edd. : fortasse ex cortice vel iii cortice 

 vel cortici. 



* dura cum V* (aKX-rjpos Theophrastus et Dioscorides) 

 Mayhoff : dira curn fere omnibus codd. Dellefsen. 



* Post folio add. lato [ex Theophrasto IV. 9, 1 : to 8e (f>vXXov 

 earl irXaTV TTpoaefi(f>epes rw t-^s iTTeXeas) Mayhoff. 



* Theophrastus has only 11770 (v.l. enl) t<x>v (f>vXXo)v. 



^ If the habent of the MS8. be correct, Pliny has construed 

 Theophrastus' sentence, erepov 8e KavXov opdov d(f>ir)at.v (VI. 

 4, 11 J so as to make erepov agree with KavXov. Hort, 

 however, translates : " There is another kind which sends up 

 an erect stem." Unum is certainly odd, and Pliny very likely 

 mistranslated, writing habenl : " they have one stem which ia 

 upright etc." The kind peculiar to Sicily is Cynara cardun- 

 culiis (cardoon); the one with the erect stem is Cynara 

 scolymus (articlioke). 



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