Passage
Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.15.p5
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Chamaecissos spicata est tritici modo, ramulis quinis fere, foliosa—cum floret, existimari potest alba viola—, radice tenui. bibunt ischiadici folia III obolis in vini cyathis II septenis diebus, admodum amara potione.