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Show Poets and Their Garlio Homer had a sincere respect for garlic, to which he attributed the estimable property of "dispelling enchantments." en-chantments." With us, the Roman poet and bishop, Sidonius Apolll-naris, Apolll-naris, born at Lyon in 403 and known also as Caius Sullius, held garlic in such contempt that he wrote: "Happy the nose that is never nev-er exposed to the poisonous exhalations exhala-tions of this plant." By the same token, an order of chivalry, ignoring ignor-ing ribaldry, exacted In its regulations regula-tions the agreement that each member should abstain from garlic and onions from January to December Decem-ber if he valued companionship. This strange order existed in Castile Cas-tile about the middle of the 14th century and the ban on garlic and onions was said to have been place-by place-by the king. |