Balsam was seriously popular and the Roman historian Pliny mentioned that during the Jewish War in the first century C.E. the fighters attempted to destroy all the balsam plants to prevent the conquering Romans from taking them.
Rahisitori wa Moroma e bong Pliny o ne a bolela gore ka nako ya Ntwa ya Bajuda mo lekgolong la ntlha la dingwaga C.E., batlhabani ba Bajuda ba ne ba leka go senya dimela tsotlhe tsa balema go thibela Baroma ba ba neng ba ba fenya go di tsaya.