In regard to the ancients' knowledge of lead compounds, we may state that the substance described by Dioscorides as ,uoXv,3Saiva was undoubtedly litharge, that Pliny uses the word minium in its present sense of red lead, ana that white lead was well known to Geber in the 8th century.
The name Ambrosia was also applied by Dioscorides and Pliny to certain herbs, and has been retained in modern botany for a genus of plants from which it has been extended to the group of dicotyledons called Ambrosiaceae, including Ambrosia, Xanthium and Iva, all annual herbaceous plants represented
Dioscorides הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד