ἄγνος

English (LSJ)

ἡ, Att. ὁ,

   A = λύγος, chaste-tree, the branches of which were strewed by matrons on their beds at the Thesmophoria, Vitex Agnus-castus, h.Merc.410, Chionid.2, cf. Trag.Adesp.396, Pl.Phdr. 230b, Hp.Int.30, Arist.H A627a9, Nic.Th.71, Dsc.1.103. (Associated with the notion of chastity from the like ness of its name to ἁγνός.)    II ἄγνος, ὁ, name of a fish, = καλλιώνυμος Diph.Siph. ap.Ath.8.356a (sine acc. cod., ἁγνός Kaib.).    III a kind of bird, Sch.Pl.Phdr.l.c., Suid.

German (Pape)

[Seite 18] ὁ, auch ἡ, z. B. bei EM. 595, 33, nach Suid. = λύγος, Keuschlamm, weidenartiger Strauch, bei Plat. Phaedr. 230 b, hoch und schattig (nach Diosc. διὰ τὸ τὰς ἐν τοῖς Θεσμοφορίοις ἁγνευούσας γυναῖκας εἰς ὑπόστρωμα χρῆσθαι αὐτῇ, vgl. Schol. Nic. Fher. 71; andere, denen Lobeck Parerg. p. 346 beistimmt, für ἄγονος, παρὰ τὸ τοὺς ἐσθίοντας ἀγόνους τηρεῖν, vgl. Schol. Il. 11, 105; wahrscheinlich von ἄγνυμι). Vgl. Mein. II, p.