The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



SECT. IV. CHAP. XXXIX. 

 Of the oniony garlicky roccamboy &c. 



THE onion, cepay fo caird from fc- 

 veral Greek words that import 

 tiieir ofFenfivenefs to the eyes, qiiod ecu- 

 torum tunicam, &c. contrahique cogaty 

 lachrymas eliciendo. The Oxford cata- 

 logue fays it is a root of that great an- 

 tiquity, and held in fo great efteem by 

 the antients, that they were faid to be 

 deified in Egypt ^ (and Juvenal alfo 

 iS*^. 15, calls them a holy nation) that 

 had their gods growing even in their 

 gardens , but Herodotus fays truly of it, 

 that there was ninety tun of gold fpent 

 in that root whilft the pyramids were 

 building, as Mr. Evelyn alfo obferves, 

 in \^^'Acetarta, 



Of kin to the onion, is pommy the 

 leek 5 fo term'd^ zs Bauhinus ^2.ySy quod 

 porro eaty longe lateque grajfetur. And 

 unto the fame clafs alfo may be reduced 

 alUiimy the garlick 5 qiiod ob ifigratam 

 redo'ientiam it a dicitury as our two learn- 

 ed etymologifts, Stephens and Bro'Uo77y 



have 



