σέσελις

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ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware

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Full diacritics: σέσελις Medium diacritics: σέσελις Low diacritics: σέσελις Capitals: ΣΕΣΕΛΙΣ
Transliteration A: séselis Transliteration B: seselis Transliteration C: seselis Beta Code: se/selis

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A hartwort, Tordylium officinale, Arist.HA611a18, Plu.2.383e:—also σέσελι, τό, Hp.Acut.23, Alex.127.8, Thphr.HP 9.15.5; σ. κρητικόν Dsc.3.54; other kinds, σ. μασσαλιωτικόν Massilian hartwort, Seseli tortuosum, ib.53; σ. αἰθιοπικόν hare's ear, Bupleurum fruticosum, ibid.; σ. ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ golden cow-parsnip, Malabaila aurea, ibid.; σ. Κύπριον,= κίκι, Id.4.161.

German (Pape)

[Seite 872] ein Pflanzengeschlecht, Arist. H. A. 9, 5, sonst σίλι, σιλικύπριον, auch κῖκι genannt.