plant
Millet
Millet as a plant people have named and used. Small grain, dry land, many seeds — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Millet is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists millet (kenkhros) among cereal drugs and poultices. A named millet in that handbook, not barley/wheat as the already-walked cereal pharmacy and not a birdseed dump.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Millet is historically related to Oil.
In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Millet is placed beside Oil as concrete shop companions.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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Roman religion
Millet appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats millet among cereal crops of Italian and provincial agriculture. A named millet in that encyclopedia, not wheat or barley as the Dioscorides grains already walked and not a modern birdseed dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- The Jewish Encyclopedia · Isidore Singer et al.
Isidore Singer et al., The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906).