Assertion: gentian violet's property | /r/HasProperty | mentioned by pliny
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text: As legend has it, the medicinal qualities of the official European gentian was first discovered by Gentius, king of the Illyrians, who was defeated and taken prisoner by the Romans in about 168 B.C. Growing as it does in the mountains of most European countries, except in the extreme north, the herbal properties of the plant were mentioned by Galen, Pliny, and Dioscorides, but not by Hippocrates or Theophrastus, who lived before Gentius.