strychnos

μηδενί δίκην δικάσῃς πρίν ἀμφοῖν μῦθον ἀκούσῃς → do not give your judgement on anything until you have heard a speech on both sides

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

strychnos: i, m., = στρύχνος>,
I a kind of nightshade, Plin. 27, 8, 44, § 68.—Called also trychnos, Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 177; App. Herb. 74.