μυρίκη
From LSJ
Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous
English (LSJ)
[on the quantity v. infr.], ἡ,
A tamarisk (in Greece, Tamarix tetrandra; in Egypt, Tamarix articulata), θῆκεν ἀνὰ μυρίκην [ῐ] Il. 10.466; μυρίκης ἐριθηλέας ὄζους ib.467; δόρυ . . κεκλιμένον μυρίκῃσιν 21.18, cf. h.Merc.81, Nic.Th.612; but πτελέαι τε καὶ ἰτέαι ἠδὲ μυρῖκαι Il.21.350, cf. Theoc.1.13, 5.101, and Lat. myrīca; ἐκ μυρίκης πεποιημένη θύρη Hdt.2.96; μυρίκης κλῶνα Alc.119: pl., PCair.Zen.383.16 (iii B. C.).
