{"id":46538,"date":"2019-01-10T08:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/roman-aphrodisiacs\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:09:39","slug":"roman-aphrodisiacs","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-aphrodisiacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman aphrodisiacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/pliniusz-starszy\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a> wrote that the white juice of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/lettuce-roman-way-to-sleep\/\">lettuce<\/a> calms the love enthusiasm, but also lowers the fever and also increases the volume of blood. What salad was it? Modern researchers have discovered that it was probably the so-called <b>compass plant<\/b> (<em>lactuca serriola<\/em>) &#8211; a wild plant, the ancestor of lettuce, resembling more dandelion than the familiar round vegetable. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Romans considered aphrodisiac to be arugula and its seeds &#8211; in the taste of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/pepper-in-ancient-rome\/\">pepper<\/a>. The plant was offered to the god of fertility and home gardens &#8211; Priap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-46538","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/46538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/46538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=46538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}