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Headword:
*(olosxoi/nw|
Adler number: omicron,201
Translated headword: with a club-rush
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aeschines in the [speech]
On the Mismanaged Embassy [sc. uses the word].[1]
Theophrastus says that there are three kinds of rush, the third of which, outstanding in size and fleshiness, is called club-rush.[2]
Greek Original:*(olosxoi/nw|: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ th=s parapresbei/as. *qeo/frastos de\ tri/a ei)/dh sxoi/nou fhsi/n, w(=n o( tri/tos mege/qei kai\ eu)sarki/a| diafe/rwn o(lo/sxoinos kalei=tai.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
[1]
Aeschines 2.21.
[2]
Theophrastus,
History of Plants 4.12.1. The LSJ (web address 1) identifies this plant as
Scirpus Holoschoenus. But botanists have reclassified it into a new genus, split off from
Scirpus, and its scientific name is now
Scirpoides holoschoenus, known commonly as
roundhead bulrush (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2000@05:20:07.
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