03-01-2011, 02:03 AM
The original reference is Pliny Nat. 13.2
"cui addidere omphacium, cardamomum, iuncum, calamum, mel, vinum, murram, semen balsami, galbanum, resinam terebinthinam."
The mysterious "calbono" appears in the place where Pliny uses galbanum. The Latin word galbanum is defined (in Lewis & Short) as "[T]he resinous sap of an umbelliferous plant in Syria (the Bubon galbanum, Linn.)". In modern English it is known as Galban.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...3Dgalbanum
"cui addidere omphacium, cardamomum, iuncum, calamum, mel, vinum, murram, semen balsami, galbanum, resinam terebinthinam."
The mysterious "calbono" appears in the place where Pliny uses galbanum. The Latin word galbanum is defined (in Lewis & Short) as "[T]he resinous sap of an umbelliferous plant in Syria (the Bubon galbanum, Linn.)". In modern English it is known as Galban.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...3Dgalbanum
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