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Headword:
*mw=lu
Adler number: mu,1326
Translated headword: moly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An antidote; or a plant which protects against drugs, namely a wild rue.
Greek Original:*mw=lu: a)ntipa/qion: h)\ bota/nh a)lecifa/rmakos, h)/toi ph/ganon a)/grion.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon: see the references at
Photius mu643 Theodoridis.
Moly famously appears in
Homer,
Odyssey 10.305, as the herb which Hermes gives Odysseus: black root, milk-white flower, hard to dig up (unless one is a god), and an antidote against Circe's potions (see web address 1). For later applications of the word (e.g. to garlic or rue) see LSJ s.v.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; epic; medicine; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2003@06:07:14.
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