[137] If he alludes here to what Theophrastus says, his assertion is simply that, in Bactria, the grains are as large as an olive-stone.
[138] There is no wild barley in India at the present day.
[139] Porridge, or fermenty.
[140] Oryza sativa of Linnæus.
[141] Like our rice-milk, probably. See B. xxii. c. [26].
[142] They are not carnose or fleshy, but thin, and similar to those of the reed.
[143] On the contrary, it is tough and fibrous.
[144] The barley was, originally, the prize given to the victor in the Eleusinian games.
[145] Or “barley-fed.”
[146] The ἀλφίτον of the Greeks.