In the Greek dictionary the term silphion is translated by laserpicio, aromatic plant. Was in ancient times a plant similar to the giant fennel in Tangiers of the genus Ferula whose specific identity still unknown although we have some description in Pliny the elder, Theophrastus, and Strabo and his image is preserved in any currency of the Roman province Cyrenaica to the North of Libya, where they grew rich to extinction? in the 1st century. I was used in the kitchen, as aphrodisiac, abortion and many other ways. Some have regarded it as the aspirin of the ancient.
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