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1 Similar to our pearl barley, probably.
2 "Anguli." Dalechamps interprets this as two rows of grain; but Fée thinks that it signifies angles, and points. The Polygonum fagopyrum of Linnæus, he says, buck-wheat, or black-wheat, has an angular grain, but he doubts whether that can possibly be the grain here alluded to.
3 There is no barley without a beard; it is clearly a variety of wheat that is alluded to.
4 Triticum spelta of Linnæus.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AEDI´LES
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- Lewis & Short, nundĭnus
- Lewis & Short, pasco
- Lewis & Short, trĭgĕmĭnus