Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 7.4

ed. Arthur Hort

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

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

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Enquiry into Plants

1. 1 καὶ τοῖς τόποις Ald; κατὰ τοὺς τόπους conj W. cf. C.P. 5. 6. 7.
2. 2 ἀγγείῳ . . . λαμβάνει om. UMPAld.; διαφορὰν δὲ καὶ Cam.; τόπῳ· διαφέρειν δὲ καὶ H.; ἀγγείῳ conj. W. from C.P. 5. 6. 7; καὶ διαφορὰν conj. Sch. cf. Geop. 12. 19. 6.
3. 3 cf. 7. 1. 6: Geop. 12. 20. 3.
4. After εἶναι there is a lacuna in UMAld.; Cam. supplies γένους διαφοράν· τῶν δὲ ἀνάπαλιν πλείω γένη; H. has πλείω γένη
5. ¹ Diosc. 2. 112 mentions a kind called by the Romans ἀρμοράκιον. Plin. 19. 82 has armoracia and says that this was called armon in Pontus; Sch. suggests that the latter name may have given rise to both armoracia and ἀμωρέα.
6. ² Plin. 18. 129. cf. 19. 75; Athen. 9. 7.
7. 3 πηγνύναι. The verb is used of planting seeds singly; cf. 6. 6. 9: 7. 1. 2; 7. 5. 3.
8. ¹ Athen. 9. 9: Plin. 19. 80. ² Wild radish. See Index.
9. ¹ Athen. 3. 4: Plin. 19. 68.
10. ² Plin. 19. 101—104.
11. ³ Σάρδια conj. Meurs. from Plin.l.c.; γάρδια Ald.H.
12. ⁴ l.e. making offsets.
13. 5 Ἀσκαλώνια, whence Eng. shallot; though this name is applied to κ. σχιστόν. 6 τὸ add. W.
14. ¹ πηγνύουσι: cf. 7. 4. 3 n. The word evidently has a dif- ferent sense here; cf. § 10, where πηγνύω and φυτεύω seem to be synonymous.
15. ² οὕτω conj. Sch. from G; τῖς ἄλλοις Ald.
16. ³ i.e. instead of being raised from seed. cf. what is said 7. 2. 2 of the offsets of γήθυον.
17. ¹ i.e. bulb: cf. 9. 11. 6. 2 cf. 7. 2. 2.
18. ³ Plin. 19. 111 and 112..