melanthium
From LSJ
Ἒστιν ὃ μὲν χείρων, ὃ δ' ἀμείνων ἔργον ἕκαστον· οὐδεὶς δ' ἀνθρώπων αὐτὸς ἅπαντα σοφός. (Theognis 901f.) → One is worse, the other better at each deed, but no man is wise in all things.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mĕlanthĭum: (-on), ii, n., = μελάνθιον>,
I the plant gith, cultivated fennel-flower: gith e Graecis alii melanthion, alii melaspermon, vocant, Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182; Col. poët. 10, 245; also chamomile, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 53.—Called also mĕlanthum, Ser. Samm. 30.
