LIBER XII · CAPUT 20
CANCAMUM AND TARUM
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
His adiecere mangones quam Daphnidis vocant, cognominatam isocinnamon, pretiumque ei faciunt $X$ CCC. adulteratur styrace et propter similitudinem corticum laurus tenuissimis surculis. quin et in nostro orbe seritur, extremoque in margine imperii, qua Rhenus adluit, vidi in alvariis apium satam. color abest ille torridus sole et ob id simul idem odor.
Ex confinio casiae cinnamique et cancamum ac tarum invehitur, sed per Nabataeos Trogodytas, qui consedere ex Nabataeis.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
To these varieties the dealers have added another, which they call daphnoides, and give it the surname of isocinnamon; the price at which it sells is three hundred denarii per pound. It is adulterated with storax, and, in consequence of the resemblance of the bark, with very small sprigs of laurel. Cassia is also planted in our part of the world, and, indeed, at the extreme verge of the Empire, on the banks of the river Rhenus, where it flourishes when planted in the vicinity of hives of bees. It has not, however, that scorched colour which is produced by the excessive heat of the sun; nor has it, for the same reason, a similar smell to that which comes from the south.
From the confines of the country which produces cinnamon and cassia, cancamum and tarum are imported; but these substances are brought by way of the Nabatæan Troglodytæ, a colony of the Nabatæi.