σέλινον

English (LSJ)

τό, Aeol. σέλιννον Choerob.in An.Ox.2.258:—

   A celery, Apium graveolens, Il.2.776, Od.5.72, Batr.54, Ar.Nu.982, Eub.36 (pl.), Thphr.HP1.2.2, CP6.11.10, Nic.Th.649; σελίνου σπέρμα Hdt.4.71; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr.HP9.11.10; σελίνων στεφανίσκοι Anacr.54, cf. Theoc.3.23, AP4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi.O.13.33; Κορίνθια σ. Id.N.4.88, cf. I.2.16, Com.Adesp.153, D.S.16.79; such chaplets were also hung on tombs, τὸ σ. πένθεσι προσήκει Duris 33 J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said δεῖσθαι τοῦ σ., Plu.2.676d, cf. Tim. 26; σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ Artem.1.77; mostly planted in garden borders (cf. σ. κηπαῖον Dsc.3.64), hence prov., οὐδ' ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδ' ἐν πηγάνῳ tis scarcely begun yet', Ar.V.480.    2 σ. ἄγριον,= βατράχιον, Dsc.2.175;= σμύρνιον, Ps.-Dsc.3.67;= ἐλεοσέλινον, ib.64.    II pudenda muliebria, Phot., cf. Sch.Theoc.11.10. [ῐ only in AP7.621.]