ἅλμην πιόντες ἐξαπῆλθον τοῦ βίου → they drank seawater and departed from life
sōlānum: i, n.,I a plant, called also strychnos, nightshade, Plin. 27, 13, 108, § 132; Cels. 2, 33; 3, 18; 5, 26.