There was nothing for the animals to eat except the succulent, but thorny, leaves of the Cactus opuntia, or the more fibrous blades of the wild agave.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
First, Chelem, apparently identical with agave angustifolia; this ranks first.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
When the head of Crassus was brought to the door, the tables were just taken away, and one Jason, a tragic actor, of the town of Tralles, was singing the scene in the Bacchae of Euripides concerning agave.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh