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Quotation from Life of St. Martin by Sulpitius Severus; Alexander Roberts
“Here he subsisted for some time on the roots of plants; and, while doing so, he took for food hellebore, which is, as people say, a poisonous kind of grass”
Life of St. Martin, Life of St. Martin, Ch. 6, trans. Alexander Roberts (1894)
The hellebore episode intersects ascetic diet, poison lore, and miraculous preservation.
Citation: "Here he subsisted for some time on the roots of plants; and, while doing so, he took for food hellebore, which is, as people say, a poisonous kind of grass" — Sulpitius Severus; Alexander Roberts, Life of St. Martin, Life of St. Martin, Ch. 6, trans. Alexander Roberts (1894). (id life-of-st-martin-q2)
Portrait: Freskenzyklus mit Szenen aus dem Leben des Hl. Martin von Tours, Kapelle in Unterkirche San Francesco in Assisi, Szene: Der meditierende Heilige, Detail, Simone Martini, Public domain.
