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|lshtext=<b>hŏlus</b>: ([[better]] [[than]] ŏlus; archaic he-lus; cf.: [[helus]] et helusa antiqui dicebant, [[quod]] [[nunc]] [[holus]] et holera, Paul. ex Fest. p. 100 Müll. A form, holu, [[anciently]] helu, can be inferred from helvola, [[helvella]], and [[olvatum]]; v. Müll. Paul. ex Fest. p. 203, b), ĕris (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. holerorum for holerum, Lucil. ap. Non. 490, 25; dat. plur. holeris for holeribus, [[Cato]], R. R.), n. Sanscr. haris, [[green]]; Gr. [[χλόη]]; cf.: [[helvus]]. helvola, [[Helvius]]; O. H. Germ. grucni; Germ. grün; Engl. [[green]], etc..<br /><b>I</b> Kitchen or [[garden]] herbs of [[any]] [[kind]]; vegetables, esp. [[cabbage]], colewort, turnips, [[greens]], Varr. R. R. 1, 16 fin.; Col. 2, 10, 22; Verg. G. 4, 130: [[pomum]], [[holus]], ficum, uvam, Afran. ap. Macr. S. 2, 16: [[donec]] Discoqueretur [[holus]], Hor. S. 2, 1, 74: prandere, id. Ep. 1, 17, 13: silvestre, Plin. 22, 22, 38, § 80: marinum, [[sea]]-cale, id. 29, 4, 25, § 80: [[semper]] [[holus]] metimus, Calp. Ecl. 2, 74: [[Syria]] in hortis operosissima, venitque in [[proverbium]] Graecis, [[multa]] Syrorum holera, Plin. 20, 5, 16, § 33.—Prov. for a [[coarse]] or [[humble]] [[meal]], [[plain]] [[diet]]: [[melius]] est vocari ad olera cum caritate [[quam]] ad vitulum saginatum cum [[odio]], Vulg. Prov. 16, 17: qui [[infirmus]] est [[olus]] manducet, ib. Rom. 14, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Holus atrum, also joined [[into]] one [[word]], [[holusatrum]] (in gen. holeris atri and holusatri), n., a [[plant]], called also Smyrnium [[holusatrum]], Linn.; Col. 11, 3, 18; id. 12, 7, 1; Plin. 19, 8, 48, § 162; id. 19, 12, 62, § 187; called also: [[holus]] pullum, Col. 10, 123.

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