HERB - "Hortulus" - "Mint"

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Here's today's installment of Strabo - Raisya

"XVIII.  Mint

	I shall never lack a good supply of common mint,
In all its many varieties, all its colors, all
Its virtues.  One of its kind is thought to be good for the voice:
If a man who is often troubled with hoarseness wets his dry
Throat with a julep of mint, the roughness will go and the tone
Come clear.
			Another kind there is, with a different scent
And a rather harsher taste, which grows very thick.  Its full
Spread of leaf casts no mean shadow; but like the danewort
It aims high on its strong stem and stretches its wings
Of leaf on every side...
						But if any man can name
The full list of all the kinds and all the properties
of mint, he must be one who knows how many fish
Swim in the Indian Ocean, how many sparks Vulcan
Sees fly in the air from his vast furnace in Etna."
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