Piper
(
πέπερι). Pepper; brought from India, and used by both
Greeks and Romans as a seasoning (Pliny ,
Pliny H.
N. xii. 26-29;
Pers. v. 136). The word
piperatorium is used of a pepper-box (
Paul.
Sent. iii. 6, 86). See the
Gazette Archéologique for 1885, p. 335.