Browsing the Oxford Latin Dictionary at the Warwick Public Library I was stuck by the word " gelotphyllis " : " a plant yielding a hallucinatory drug " ( " LSD " flashed in my mind ) . A GOOGLE AI search explained Pliny's use of it

[Use the Latin word " gelotophyllis " in a sentence of Roman author Pliny -with English translation ?] The rare Latin noun gelotophyllis (literally translating from Greek roots as "leaves of laughter") appears in Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic masterpiece, the Naturalis Historia. Pliny uses this term in his botanical books while documenting a series of magical or highly unusual psychotropic plants rumored by ancient Eastern authorities (like Democritus) to affect the human mind. Modern botanists frequently suspect that Pliny's description of gelotophyllis was an early, garbled reference to the psychoactive properties of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa). 🌿 The Latin Quote "Gelotophyllis nascitur in Bactria et circa Borysthenen. Haec si bibatur ex myrrha et vino, varia obversari semet animo phantasmata edereque risum passim, quoad pineorum nucleorum nuclei cum pipere et melle e palmite vino sumantur." — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book XXIV, Chapter 102 (164) 🇬🇧 English Translation "The gelotophyllis grows in Bactria and along the Borysthenes. If this be taken in myrrh and wine, all kinds of phantoms beset the mind, causing laughter which persists until the kernels of pine-nuts are taken with pepper and honey in palm wine." Plin. .Nat. 24.164