See also beta 339.
[1] blh/xwn is the Attic form, while glh/xwn is the Ionic (and gla/xwn the Doric); cf. gamma 287.
[2] Pennyroyal, a plant of the mint family (Mentha pulegium), is native to most parts of Europe and has slightly hairy oval-shaped leaves and whorled clusters of deep purple or lilac blue colored flowers. It was esteemed by Pliny and other ancient writers for its powers of purification.
[3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 89 (web address 1 below). See generally J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 135 #129: 'pennyroyal is used jokingly by Lysistrata to refer to the Boeotian girl's neatly depilated campus muliebris, with a clever reference to the smooth, fertile plains of that region'.