The classical authors connected Greek "armeniaca" with Latin "praecocia": Pedanius Dioscorides' " ... " and Martial's ""Armeniaca, et praecocia latine dicuntur"". Putting together the "Armeniaca" and the "Mala" obtains the well-known epithet, but there is no evidence the ancients did it; "Armeniaca" alone meant the apricot. Nonetheless, the 12th century Andalusian agronomist Ibn al-'Awwam refers to the species in the title of chapter 40 of his "Kitab al-Filaha" as والتفاح الارمني, ""apple from Armenia"", stating that it is the same as المشمش or البرقوق ("al-mishmish" or "al-barqūq").