λωτός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[[ὁ]] (<b class="b3">λῶτα· ἄνθη</b>, Hsch. is perh. for [[ἄωτα]]), name applied to various plants and trees (<span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>7.15.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>14.101</span>, cf. Hsch.) providing fodder or fruit: <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> fodder plants, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[clover]], [[trefoil]], [[Trifolium fragiferum]], <span class="bibl">Od.4.603</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>7.8.3</span>, <span class="bibl">7.13.5</span>, Dsc. 4.111. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[fellbloom]], [[Lotus corniculatus]], <span class="bibl">Il.14.348</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>22.55</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> = [[τῆλις]], <b class="b2">fenugreek, Trigonella Foenum-graecum</b>, Dsc.2.102; <b class="b3">λ. ἄγριος</b> <b class="b2">wild fenugreek, T. gladiata</b>, Id.4.111, Gal.12.65. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">melilot, T. graeca</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>9.7.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[Italian melilot]], [[Melilotus messanensis]], Dsc.4.110, Gal. l.c. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> = [[κύτισος]], [[Medicago arborea]], Ps.-Dsc.4.112. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">Nile water-lily, Egyptian lotus, Nymphaea Lotus</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.92</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.8.9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.152</span> (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.113, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>13.107</span>; the blue species ([[Nymphaea stellata]]), <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span> 4.8.11</span>; also, [[Nymphaea Nelumbo]], <span class="bibl">Ath.3.73a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> of trees found in Libya, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[nettle-tree]], [[Celtis australis]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.5.3</span>, <span class="bibl">4.3.1</span>, Dsc. 1.117, etc.; used for making flutes, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.3.4</span>: hence </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> in E. (lyr.) and later poets, [[flute]], λ.… Μουσᾶν θεράπων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>716</span>, cf. <span class="title">Pae.Delph.</span>12, <span class="title">AP</span>7.182 (pl., Mel.); Λίβυς λ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>544</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hel.</span>170</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IA</span> 1036</span>, prob. in <span class="bibl">Limen.13</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> [[pipe]] inserted in the [[νάβλα]], <span class="bibl">Sopat. 10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span> [[tube]] or [[stalk]] of vaginal speculum, <span class="bibl">Aët. 16.89</span>, <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg. 6.73</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> tree growing among the Lotophagi, [[Zizyphus Lotus]], λωτοῖο… μελιηδέα καρπόν <span class="bibl">Od.9.94</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.96</span>, <span class="bibl">4.177</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.3.1</span>-<span class="bibl">4</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.12.2.2</span>.</span>