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In the said phrase, is "grow" an imperative or intransitive verb?
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Subject: Re: [M-R] pulses and legumes
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> 1. Others have already mentioned how beans/pulses/lentils/peas were
> frequently mentioned by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The *Oxford
> Companion to Food* (s.v. "Pea") says that dried peas were an
> important source of food for poor people in Europe throughout the
> Middle Ages. It does not give any specifics about dates or regions,
> and no specific sources are cited.
>
> 2. In an early chapter of Calvert Watkins' *How to Kill a Dragon:
> Aspects of Indo-European Poetics* (Oxford: OUP, 1995; new ed. 2001)
> he argues that the origin of "oats, peans, beans and barley grow"
> goes back to an common Indo-European poetic phrase. I'm not sure I
> totally agree with his argumentation, but he surely knows more
> Hittite than I do.
>
> My guess is that medieval Europeans would have known the poem long
> before they realized the benefits of including legumes in their crop
> rotation. Of course, once they did, they may have interpreted the
> poem that way, but we'd need to see some evidence. Might it be
> included in some medieval agricultural manual?
>
> --Jonathan Hall
>
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