The foundation is of garbanzos, the large chick-pea of the country, brought originally to Europe by the Carthaginians,-the Roman cicer, which gave its name to the greatest of the Latin orators.
"Castilian Days"
John Hay
For the Latins call a vetch cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of cicero.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh