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Picture No 10018551
Date circa 80 AD
Description Dioscorides receives a mandrake root from Euresis.
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Dioscorides(c. 40 û 90 AD), Greek naturalist, receives a mandrake root from Euresis, goddess of Discovery, but the dog who actually pulled it out of the ground dies in consequence.
Source From a 5th century edition of Dioscorides' Materia Medica, (1st century)
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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