canna
From LSJ
ἀναγκαίως δ' ἔχει βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν, καὶ τὸν μὲν εἶναι, τὸν δὲ μή → But it is our inevitable lot to harvest life like a fruitful crop, for one of us to live, one not. (Euripides, Hypsipyle fr. 60.94ff.)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
canna: ae, f., = κάννα,
I a reed, cane (less freq. than harundo), Col. 7, 9, 7; 4, 32, 3: palustris, Ov. M. 4, 298: tremulae, id. ib. 6, 326 al.—
II Transf., any thing made of reed.
A A reed-pipe, flute, Ov. M. 2, 682; 11, 171; Sil. 7, 439.—
B A small vessel, gondola, Juv. 5, 89; cf. Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 21; 7, 56. 57, § 206.—
C Canna gutturis. in later medical writers, the windpipe, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 16, 97; id. Tard. 2, 12, 137.
