Opium: Historical Note, or the Poppy in China #260271

That the Peppy was cultivated very early in Italy is clear from a passage 335530213; in cornelius nepos, who, in his account of tarquin, mentions it in a way to show 0mm that in the time of the last of the Roman Kings it was commonly sown in gardens. Tarquin's son was in a city Of Etruria, devising means to betray it to his father without himself losing the confidence of the people, who believed father and son to be in a state of hopeless alienation, he having come to their city with wounds on his body, which he said had been inflicted by his father as a punishment. He sent a messenger to his father for advice. The father took the envoy into his garden and struck down all the tallest Poppies. Sextus tarquinius knew what this meant, and by procuring the death or removal from the city of all the chief inhabitants, succeeded in persuading the remainder to submit to his father's rule.