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<span style="color:#3CB371">Translation:</span>
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''Cantabrica'', says Pliny, is a herb found in Spain. It was discovered by the Cantabri at the time of the godly Emperor Augustus. It grows everywhere, it has a stem like ''iuncus'' {“a rush”} the length of one foot and on it are rather long small flowers resembling ''calathi'' {i.e. trumpet-shaped wicker baskets} [[http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Calathus_basket.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calathus_basket.jpg&h=663&w=602&sz=165&tbnid=5nhb0JRgmi2y5M:&tbnh=119&tbnw=108&zoom=1&usg=__JN7Fb3qpAVmy4fnSJ33ujnA5Sfo=&docid=q-mzRhmpKG4oaM&sa=X&ei=CiFoUsPgNoWR0AXu7oH4DQ&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAw]] in which there are extremely small seeds et cetera.
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''Cantabrica'', says Pliny, is a herb found in Spain. It was discovered by the Cantabri at the time of the godly Emperor Augustus. It grows everywhere, it has a stem like ''iuncus'' {"a rush"} the length of one foot and on it are rather long small flowers resembling ''calathi'' {i.e. trumpet-shaped wicker baskets} [[http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Calathus_basket.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calathus_basket.jpg&h=663&w=602&sz=165&tbnid=5nhb0JRgmi2y5M:&tbnh=119&tbnw=108&zoom=1&usg=__JN7Fb3qpAVmy4fnSJ33ujnA5Sfo=&docid=q-mzRhmpKG4oaM&sa=X&ei=CiFoUsPgNoWR0AXu7oH4DQ&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAw]] in which there are extremely small seeds et cetera.
       
''Cantabrica'', the herb name is obviously connected to the Spanish region of Cantabria.
 
''Cantabrica'', the herb name is obviously connected to the Spanish region of Cantabria.
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Simon’s entry is a near verbatim quote from Pliny [Loeb] vol.VII, book XXV, chapter xlvi, p. 198, § 85. The plant name ''Cantabrica'' is only attested in Pliny and he attributes the finding of this plant not to Augustus but to the Cantabri: ''In eadem Hispania inventa est cantabrica per divi Augusti tempora a Cantabris reperta'' - “Also in Spain the plant ''cantabrica'' was discovered, found by the Cantabrians, at the time of the late emperor Augustus”.
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Simon’s entry is a near verbatim quote from Pliny [Loeb] vol.VII, book XXV, chapter xlvi, p. 198, § 85. The plant name ''Cantabrica'' is only attested in Pliny and he attributes the finding of this plant not to Augustus but to the Cantabri: ''In eadem Hispania inventa est cantabrica per divi Augusti tempora a Cantabris reperta'' - "Also in Spain the plant ''cantabrica'' was discovered, found by the Cantabrians, at the time of the late emperor Augustus".
       
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