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But the captain had found laserpicium there, and tossed enough canvas overboard to make room for twenty amphorae of it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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But the captain had found laserpicium there, and tossed enough canvas overboard to make room for twenty amphorae of it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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As far as the Romans were concerned, asafoetida was a variety of silfium/laserpicium, albeit an inferior Persian variety.
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laserpicium A substance obtained from a north African shrub called silphium.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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laserpicium A substance obtained from a north African shrub called silphium.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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