laser
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
lāser: (lāsar), ĕris, n.,
I the juice of the plant laserpitium, assafœtida.
I Lit.: laser e silphio profluens, Plin. 22, 23, 49, § 101; cf.: cujus sucum vocant laser, id. 19, 3, 15, § 38: laser Cyrenaicum vino diluere, Col. Arb. 23.—Jestingly of Maecenas: laser Arretinum, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4, 12. —Form lasar: lasaris radix, Apic. 8, 7.—
II Meton., the plant laserpitium itself: laseris radix, Plin. 19, 8, 43, § 153; Scrib. Comp. 192: 196.
