The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 463
f great force in ama- Ktorious matters to procure love: And thereof women (quoth hee) make them carkanets andpendant ornaments to hang about their neckcs.To conclude^he afFirmeih,that this fhrub hatha certainc^intelligencewhenaman would take hold of it, and therefore waxeth as hard as anhornc,… … THE Plinics Naturall Hiftorie.
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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