Notes

cabbage

vino adversari ut inimicam vitibus, antecedente in cibis caveri ebrietatem, postea sumpta crapulam discuti.

As cabbage is the enemy of the vine, they say that it opposes wine; that if taken in food beforehand it prevents drunkenness, taken after drinking it dispels its unpleasant effects.

cabbage

Olus caulesque,quibus nunc principatus hortorum, apud Graecos in honore fuisse non reperio, sed Cato brassicae miras canit laudes, quas in medicinae loco reddemus.

Cabbages and kales which now have preeminence in gardens, I do not find to have been held in honour among the Greeks; but Cato [R.R. CLVI. f.] sings marvellous praises of the head of cabbage, which we shall repeat when we deal with medicine.

cabbage

[Cato does sing the praises of cabbage, but he does not mention that it is inimical to the vine.]

cabbage

Silvestris sive erraticae inmenso plus effectus laudat Cato, adeo ut aridae quoque farinam in olfactorio collectam, vel odore tantum naribus rapto, vitia earum graveolentiamque sanare adfirmet. hanc alii petraeam vocant, inimicissimam vino, quam praecipue vitis fugiat aut, si non possit fugere, moriatur

Cato gives vastly higher praise to the wild, or stray, cabbage, so much so that he asserts that the mere powder of the dried vegetable, collected in a smelling-bottle, or the scent only, snuffed up the nostrils, removes nose-troubles and any offensive odour. Some call this variety rock-cabbage; it is strongly antipathetic to wine, so that the vine tries very hard to avoid it, or, if it cannot do so, dies.

cabbage

Brassicae laudes longum est exsequi, cum et Chrysippus medicus privatim volumen ei dicaverit per singula membra hominis digestum, et Dieuches, ante omnes autem Pythagoras, et Cato non parcius celebraverit, cuius sententiam vel eo diligentius persequi par est, ut noscatur qua medicina usus sit annis dc Romanus populus.

It would be a long task to make a list of all the praises of the cabbage, since not only did Chrysippus the physician devote to it a special volume, divided according to its effects on the various parts of the body, but Dieuches also, and Pythagoras above all, and Catob no less lavishly, have celebrated its virtues;

le Chou, a la Vigne:

pernicialia et brassicae cum vite odia, ipsum olus quo vitis fugatur adversum cyclamino et origano arescit.

Deadly too is the hatred between the cabbage and the vine; the very vegetable that keeps the vine at a distance itself withers away when planted opposite cyclamen or wild marjoram.

cabbage

Morbos hortensia quoque sentiunt sicut reliqua terra sata. namque et ocimum senectute degenerat in serpyllum, et sisymbrium in zmintham, et ex semine brassicae vetere rapa fiunt, atque invicem.

Garden vegetables are also liable to disease, like the rest of the plants on earth. For instance basil degenerates with old age into wild-thyme and sisymbrium into mint, and old cabbage seed produces turnip, and so on.

Le chou à la vigne

Voiez Pline, l. 17. chap. 24 & l. 24. chap. 1.

Cabbage to the Vine

Pliny xxiv. 1, § 1.

Le chou à la vigne

«Pernicialia et brassicæ cum vite odia: ipsum olus quo vitis fugatur, adversum cyclamino… arescit», dit Pline, XXIV, I. «Le chou, disent Ch. Estienne et J. Liébault, ne doit estre planté prés la vigne, ny la vigne prés du chou: car il y a si grand inimitié entre ces deux plantes que les deux plantes en un mesme terroir ayant prins quelque croissance se retournent arrière l’un de l’autre et n’en sont tant fructueuses.» (L’agriculture et maison rustique, nouvelle éd., Rouen, Laudet, 1625, in-4°, l. II. p. 155.) Cette assertion est d’ailleurs d’origine légendaire: d’après une tradition transmise par le scoliaste d’Aristophane (Les Chevaliers), Lycurgue, roi de Thrace, ayant fait détruire les vignes, un cep qu’il allait trancher l’ença tout à coup de ses sarments. Devinant la vengeance de Bacchus, le barbare se mit à pleurer; de ses larmes naquit le chou, remède traditionnel, préventif et curatif de l’ivresse. (Paul Delaunay)

cabbage to vines

(did not Lycurgus, King of Thrace, destroy the vines, when suddenly a stalk cast its twigs about him, and when from his tears, shed at Bacchus’ vengeance, was born the colewort, a traditional preventive and cure for drunkenness)

Nenuphar…

Encore une fois, la plupart de ces exemples se retrouvent dans le De latinis nominibus de Charles Estienne. Le nenufar et la semence de saule sont des antiaphrodisiaques. La ferula servait, dans l’Antiquité, à fustiger les écoliers (cf. Martial, X, 62-10).

vine

vine. Forms: vygne, vigne, vinyhe, vyny. vyne, vyn, viyn, vine, vijne; wine, wyne, vinde, vynde. [adopted from Old French vigne and vine (modern French vigne): -Latin vinea vineyard, vine, etc., formed on vin-um wine.]

The trailing or climbing plant, Vitis vini-fera, bearing the grapes from which ordinary wine is made (= grape-vine); also generally, any plant of the genus Vitis.

A single plant or tree of this species or genus.