λωτός

English (LSJ)

ὁ (λῶτα· ἄνθη, Hsch. is perh. for ἄωτα), name applied to various plants and trees (Thphr.HP7.15.3, Plin.HN14.101, cf. Hsch.) providing fodder or fruit:    I fodder plants,    1 clover, trefoil, Trifolium fragiferum, Od.4.603, Thphr.HP7.8.3, 7.13.5, Dsc. 4.111.    2 fellbloom, Lotus corniculatus, Il.14.348, Plin.HN22.55.    3 = τῆλις, fenugreek, Trigonella Foenum-graecum, Dsc.2.102; λ. ἄγριος wild fenugreek, T. gladiata, Id.4.111, Gal.12.65.    4 melilot, T. graeca, Thphr.HP9.7.3.    b Italian melilot, Melilotus messanensis, Dsc.4.110, Gal. l.c.    5 = κύτισος, Medicago arborea, Ps.-Dsc.4.112.    II Nile water-lily, Egyptian lotus, Nymphaea Lotus, Hdt.2.92, Thphr.HP4.8.9, PHib.1.152 (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.113, Plin.HN13.107; the blue species (Nymphaea stellata), Thphr.HP 4.8.11; also, Nymphaea Nelumbo, Ath.3.73a.    III of trees found in Libya,    1 nettle-tree, Celtis australis, Thphr.HP1.5.3, 4.3.1, Dsc. 1.117, etc.; used for making flutes, Thphr.HP4.3.4: hence    b in E. (lyr.) and later poets, flute, λ. . . Μουσᾶν θεράπων El.716, cf. Pae.Delph.12, AP7.182 (pl., Mel.); Λίβυς λ. E.Tr.544, Hel.170, IA 1036, prob. in Limen.13.    c pipe inserted in the νάβλα, Sopat. 10.    d tube or stalk of vaginal speculum, Aët. 16.89, Paul.Aeg. 6.73.    2 tree growing among the Lotophagi, Zizyphus Lotus, λωτοῖο . . μελιηδέα καρπόν Od.9.94, cf. Hdt.2.96, 4.177, Thphr.HP4.3.1-4, Plb.12.2.2.