εἰ μὴ ἦλθον καὶ ἐλάλησα αὐτοῖς, ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ εἶχον → if I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin
sirpe: is, n. σίλφιον>,I a plant, called also silphium and laser, asafœtida, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 16; Sol. 27, § 48.