Book 14
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Then there are pomegranates. And of pomegranates some kinds are said to be destitute of kernels, and some to have hard ones. And those without kernels are mentioned by Aristophanes in his Farmers; and in his Anagyrus he says— Except wheat flour and pomegranates. He also speaks of them in the Gerytades; and Hermippus, in his Cercopes, says— Have you e'er seen the pomegranate's kernel in snow? And we find the diminutive form ῥοΐδιον, like βοΐδιον.
