Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
teuthălis: ĭdis, f., = τευθαλίς,>
I a plant, called also sanguinaria and polygonos. Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113.