The Radix Personata mounting with their young Heads, lysimachia siliquosa glabra minor, when fresh and tender, begins to come into the Sallet-Tribe.
"Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets"
John Evelyn
Finding lysimachia deserted, he took it as his own desert; when the Romans, growing jealous of his success in the predatory line, declared that they should regard, as a direct opposition to Rome, any further acts of plunder.
"The Comic History of Rome"
Gilbert Abbott Becket