et has e perside regibus translatas indicio sunt graeca nomina: optimum quippe genus earum persicum atque basilicon vocant, et haec fuere prima nomina; caryon a capitis gravedine propter odoris gravitatem convenit dictum.
The Greek names that have been given to this fruit fully prove that it, like many others, has been originally introduced from Persis; the best kinds being known in that language by the names of “Persicum,” and “basilicon;” these, in fact, being the names by which they were first known to us. It is generally agreed, too, that one peculiar variety has derived its name of “caryon,” from the headache which it is apt to produce by the pungency of its smell. ― translation from: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History (1855), book XV: “The Natural History of the Fruit-trees”, chapter xxiv (xxii): ‘Nine Varieties of the Nut’
