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Amômon
Adler number: alpha,1636
Translated headword: spice-plant, cardamom
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Arrian [writes]: "he sends to the king a horse with golden reins, and ornaments and scimitars and a spice-plant [amomon]".[1]
Greek Original:Amômon. Arrianos: pempei para basilea hippon chrusochalinon kai pselia kai akinakas kai amômon.
Notes:
Arrian, Parthica fr.83 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F121).
For amomon as a species of cardamom see LSJ s.v.
Keywords: biography; botany; food; historiography; history; military affairs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@14:40:39.
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