For the festival known as the Nonae Caprotinae, both free and slave Roman women picnicked and celebrated together near the site of the wild fig " ( caprificus ) " to commemorate the victory.
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This festival had a legendary aetiology in a particularly delicate episode of Roman history and also recurs at ( or shortly after ) a particular time of the year, that of the so-called " caprificatio " when branches of wild fig trees were fastened to cultivated ones to promote insemination.
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Maya codices ( singular codex ) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth, Amatl, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate ( Ficus glabrata; a synonym of the Ficus insipida ).
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Further, Aristotle recorded that the fruits of the wild fig contain " psenes " ( fig wasps ); these begin life as larvae, and the adult " psen " splits its " skin " ( pupa ) and flies out of the fig to find and enter a cultivated fig, saving it from dropping.
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Or, else, from Caprificus, a wild Gallic war, a Roman virgin, who was prisoner in the enemy's camp, got up into a wild fig-tree, and holding out a lighted torch toward the city, gave the Romans a signal to fall on; which they did with such good success, as to obtain a considerable victory.
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Theophrastus observed that just as date palms have male and female flowers, and that farmers ( from the East ) help by scattering " dust " from the male on to the female, and as a male fish releases his milt over the female's eggs, so Greek farmers tie wild figs to cultivated trees.
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"' Olynthus "'( " Olinthos ", named for the D ?????? " olunthos ", the fruit of the wild fig tree ) was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30 40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Poteidaea.
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Religious quality of trees as the wild olive and the Greek or Italic lotus ( " Celtis Australis " ), analogous to that of corniolum and wild fig, to sailing communities : its wood does not rot in sea water, thence it was used in shipbuilding and in the making of rolls for hauling of ships overland.
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Aristotle recorded in " History of Animals " that the fruits of the wild fig ( the caprifig ) contain " psenes " ( fig wasps ); these begin life as larvae, and the adult " psen " splits its " skin " ( pupa ) and flies out of the fig to find and enter a cultivated fig, saving it from dropping.
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