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Pollard’s mode of analysis is important for its detailed attention to the botanical knowledge sacrosanct within Pliny’s exhaustive musings of flora and fauna and their relationship to networks of trade and exchange in the Afro-Indo-European world, the cataloguing of imperial botanical specimens, and their careful assemblage within a sacred garden light may seem a matter of peculiar horticultural interest, but Pollard’s utterance is that these gardens supplied the altars of the temples with combustible material that kindly offered up the fruits of the Roman political empire as votive offerings to the gods themselves.