Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 6.8

ed. Arthur Hort

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Enquiry into Plants. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2017.

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Current edition First1KGreek

Enquiry into Plants (Greek) (Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Hort, Heinemann, 1916)

Notes on the current edition

Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ cf. Plin. 20. 245 and 246 (not from T.): C.P. 2. 18. 2; Diosc. 3. 38; Index ἕρπυλλος.
2. 2 cf. Plin. 19. 172, which refers however to σισύμβριον; Nic. αρ. Athen. 15. 31.
3. 3 Plin. 21. 61.
4. ¹ Evidently both distinct from the νάρκισσος ἢ λείριον of 6. 6. 9: 6. 8 3. See Index.
5. ² καὶ τῶν . . . ὄρειον ins Sch. from Athen. l.c. with alteration of ὀρείων to ἀγρίων. cf. Plin. I.c.
6. ³ i.e. the flower of muscari, mentioned in this way because elsewhere (e.g. 7. 12. 1) the edible root is in question, which was properly called βολβός.
7. 4 cf. 9. 19. 3. 5 See Index.
8. 1 cf. C.P. 1. 4.
9. ² cf. the Eng. plant-name ‘love-in-absence’; see πόθος in Index.
10. 3 λευκὼς. ἔκλευκος, ‘whitish,’ Athen. l.c.
11. ⁴ Evidently the νάρκισσος ἢ λείριον of 6. 6. 9; cf. 6. 8. 1 n.
12. ¹ ?violets and gilliflowers; so also below.
13. ² Plin. l.c.: cf. C.P. 6. 18. 3.
14. 3 ἄνθη conj. St. from G; ἀνανθὴ Ald. cf. C.P. 6. 19. 4.
15. 4 Plin. 15. 37.