We call it ῥάφανος, and strangers κράμβη;
But sure to women they must both the same be.
And Anaxandrides says—
If you butter and cabbage eat,
All distempers you will beat,
Driving off all headaches horrid,
And clouds which hover round your forehead.
And Nicochares says—
Instead of cabbage, acorns boil to-morrow,
Which equally rid you of all your sorrow.
And Amphis tells us—
When one's been drunk, the best relief I know
Is stern misfortune's unexpected blow;
For that at once all languor will dispel,
As sure as cabbage.
And Theophrastus also speaks of the effect which the cabbage produces, saying that the vine as long as it lives always turns away from the smell of cabbage.