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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[sweet bay]], [[Laurus nobilis]], [[laurel]], [[bay tree]], [[bay-tree]], [[bay laurel]], [[sweet bay]], [[true laurel]], [[Grecian laurel]], [[laurel tree]] <span class="bibl">Od.9.183</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>30</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">Men. <span class="title">Georg.</span>36</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ τῆς δάφνης</b> (sc. [[τρύπανον]]) ἄριστον <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>5.9.7</span>; δάφναν μὴ δρέπε <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>2.185 (Boeot., v B.C.); [Ἀπόλλων] χρείων ἐκ δάφνης γυάλων ὕπο Παρνησοῖο <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>396</span>; ἐξ ὧν εἶπέ μοι ὁ Φοῖβος… Πυθικὴν σείσας δάφνην <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>213</span>; ἐρέω τι τορώτερον ἢ ἀπὸ δάφνης <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Del.</span>94</span>; στεφανῶσαι δάφνης στεφάνῳ <span class="title">GDI</span>2507 (Delph.), cf. <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>786 (Halic.), <span class="title">CIG</span>3641 b 20 (add., Lampsacus). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[δάφνη Ἀλεξανδρεία]] = [[Ruscus hypoglossum]], [[spineless butcher's-broom]], [[mouse thorn]], [[horse tongue lily]] <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.10.8</span>,<span class="bibl">3.17.4</span>, Dsc. 4.145. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> = [[χαμαιδάφνη]], Ps.Dsc.4.147. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[white mangrove]], [[Avicennia officinalis]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.7.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[coral]], ibid. (ᾰ <span class="bibl">Theoc.11.45</span>.)</span>