Recipe · Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Bostock & Riley translation)
long radish · vehicle not stated
Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Bostock & Riley translation)Source confidence: lower84% of resolved names disputedA 19th-century English translation (Bostock & Riley) of a 1st-century Latin text. Disputed share over 608 resolved names. Shown as lower confidence when at least half are disputed.ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Provisional extraction · prompt v3 · every quote passed the verbatim check
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Radishes have the effect, too, of restoring the skin, when scarred, to its proper colour; and the seed, steeped in water, and applied topically, arrests the progress of ulcers known as phagedænic. Democritus regards them, taken with the food, as an aphrodisiac; and it is for this reason, perhaps, that some persons have spoken of them as being injurious to the voice. , are said to have the effect of improving the eye-sight.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6): Books XVIII–XXIII, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 20, chapter 13 · THE CULTIVATED RADISH: FORTY-THREE REMEDIES. · lines 8594–8600 · passage pliny-nh:b20:c013:004
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- 1PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.leaf“The leaves, but only those of the long radish”
- 2PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.long radish“long radish”
- 3Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.improving the eye-sight“improving the eye-sight”
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