androsaemon

From LSJ
Revision as of 08:08, 13 August 2017 by Spiros (talk | contribs) (6_1)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

τὸν καπνὸν φεύγων εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέπεσεν → out of the frying pan into the fire, from the frying pan into the fire

Source

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

andrŏsaemŏn: i, n., = ἀνδρόσαιμον> (man's blood),
I a kind of St. John's-wort, with blood-red juice: Hypericum perforatum, Linn.; Plin. 27, 4, 10, § 26 sq.