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  • But the captain had found laserpicium there, and tossed enough canvas overboard to make room for twenty amphorae of it.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • But the captain had found laserpicium there, and tossed enough canvas overboard to make room for twenty amphorae of it.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • As far as the Romans were concerned, asafoetida was a variety of silfium/laserpicium, albeit an inferior Persian variety.

    languagehat.com: ROMAN LASER. 2005

  • laserpicium A substance obtained from a north African shrub called silphium.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • laserpicium A substance obtained from a north African shrub called silphium.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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