ABSTRACT
SINCE it was a tradition accepted among the ancients that Ceres discovered corn, and Pan is said to have moistened and baked the crop (hence bread, partis, too, is called by his name), she is extolled for finding it out and he praised for properly applying it for the use of mankind.1 Therefore we must see here what kinds of corn contribute to this essential benefit, and to whom this duty belongs among the races of the North.
