[Meaning a] tree [of that name].
*)/wkimon: de/ndron.
The classification is clumsy -- we could have expected 'a plant' -- but recognizable, for the herb whose Latin name is
Ocimum basilicum. It is mentioned in Attic Middle Comedy (
Eubulus); by
Theophrastus; and in medical writers (Galen et al.).
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