Kitap 2
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And Plutarch of Chæronea says, that there was in the retinue of Drusus the son of Tiberius Cæsar, a certain physician who surpassed all men in drinking, and who was detected in always eating five or six bitter almonds before he drank. But when he was prevented from eating them he was not able to stand even a very limited quantity of wine; and the cause of this was the great power of the bitterness of the almond, which is of a very drying nature, and which has the quality of expelling moisture.
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Herodian of Alexandria says, that almonds derive the name of ἀμύγδαλαι, because beneath their green bark they have many ἀμυχαὶ, or lacerations.
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Philemon says somewhere or other— You, like an ass, come to the husks of the dessert; and Nicander, in the second book of his Georgics, says—
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Beech-trees, the ornament of Pan.
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We also find the word ἀμύγδαλον in the neuter gender. Diphilus says— Sweetmeats, myrtle-berries, cheese-cakes, almonds, using the neuter ἀμύγδαλα.
