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First of all, there were turnips; and Apellas in his treatise on the Cities in Peloponnesus, says that turnips are called γαστέρες by the Lacedæmonians: and Nicander the Colophonian, in his Dialects, says that among the Bœotians it is cabbages which are called γαστέρες, and that turnips are called in Bœotia ζεκελτίδες. But Amerias and Timachidas affirm that it is gourds which are called ζακελτίδες. And Speusippus, in the second book of his treatise on Things resembling one another, says—The radish, the turnip, the rape, and the nasturtium all resemble each other. But Glaucus, in his Cookery Book, spells the word ῥάφυς (rape) with the lene π,—ῥάπυς. But these vegetables have nothing else like them, unless, indeed, it be the plant which we call bounias: but Theophrastus does not use the name of bounias, but calls it a sort of male turnip; and perhaps the plant which he means is the bounias. And Nicander, in his Georgics, mentions the bounias— Sow turnips on a well-roll'd field, that they May grow as large as the flat dish that holds them, * * * * . . . . . For there are two kinds Which from the radish spring: one long, one firm, Both seen in well-till'd beds in kitchen gardens. And the turnips which grow on the banks of the Cephisus are mentioned by Cratis, in his Orators, thus— And wholly like the turnips of Cephisus.
