cicer

• “It was said that an attestor had been called Cicero from "cicer," a vetch, because his nose was marked with the figure of that vegetable.”

  Life of Cicero Volume One

• “Guisante (Corrupted Latin: Arabo-Romance Spanish Dialect Mozarabic, adopted by Castillian dialect) _Pisum sativum_ (Modern day binomial scientific name of the English pea or Green pea) "Rooted" in the same time frame we had: cicer, cicero (Latin)”

  translation for peas & greenbeans (nfm)

• “These are the true _cicer_, the proper Italian pea.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

• “This has been interpreted to mean that cicer (vetch) was mixed with the flour.”

  Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

• “There is one curious little group of nicknames which seem to correspond to such Latin names as Piso, from pisum, a pea, and Cicero, from cicer --”

  The Romance of Names

• “It was said that an attestor had been called Cicero from “cicer,” a vetch, because his nose was marked with the figure of that vegetable.”

  The Life of Cicero

• “Horses in this country are fed mostly on "gram," cicer arietinum, a kind of pea, which, when split, forms dall, and can be made into a most nutritious and palatable curry.”

  Behind the Bungalow

• “Carthaginians, -- the Roman _cicer, _ which gave its name to the greatest of the Latin orators.”

  Castilian Days

• “It is the cicer arietinum concerning which a classical tale is told.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “His grandfather and his father had borne the same three names -- the last an inheritance from some forgotten ancestor, who had either been successful in the cultivation of vetches (_cicer_), or, as less complimentary traditions said, had a wart of that shape upon his nose.”

  Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers

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