λωτός
ἐφ' ἁρμαμαξῶν μαλθακῶς κατακείμενοι → reclining softly on litters, reclining luxuriously in covered carriages
English (LSJ)
ὁ (λῶτα· ἄνθη, Hsch. is perh. for ἄωτα), name applied to various plants and trees (Thphr.HP7.15.3, Plin.HN14.101, cf. Hsch.) providing fodder or fruit: I fodder plants, 1 clover, trefoil, Trifolium fragiferum, Od.4.603, Thphr.HP7.8.3, 7.13.5, Dsc. 4.111. 2 fellbloom, Lotus corniculatus, Il.14.348, Plin.HN22.55. 3 = τῆλις, fenugreek, Trigonella Foenum-graecum, Dsc.2.102; λ. ἄγριος wild fenugreek, T. gladiata, Id.4.111, Gal.12.65. 4 melilot, T. graeca, Thphr.HP9.7.3. b Italian melilot, Melilotus messanensis, Dsc.4.110, Gal. l.c. 5 = κύτισος, Medicago arborea, Ps.-Dsc.4.112. II Nile water-lily, Egyptian lotus, Nymphaea Lotus, Hdt.2.92, Thphr.HP4.8.9, PHib.1.152 (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.113, Plin.HN13.107; the blue species (Nymphaea stellata), Thphr.HP 4.8.11; also, Nymphaea Nelumbo, Ath.3.73a. III of trees found in Libya, 1 nettle-tree, Celtis australis, Thphr.HP1.5.3, 4.3.1, Dsc. 1.117, etc.; used for making flutes, Thphr.HP4.3.4: hence b in E. (lyr.) and later poets, flute, λ. . . Μουσᾶν θεράπων El.716, cf. Pae.Delph.12, AP7.182 (pl., Mel.); Λίβυς λ. E.Tr.544, Hel.170, IA 1036, prob. in Limen.13. c pipe inserted in the νάβλα, Sopat. 10. d tube or stalk of vaginal speculum, Aët. 16.89, Paul.Aeg. 6.73. 2 tree growing among the Lotophagi, Zizyphus Lotus, λωτοῖο . . μελιηδέα καρπόν Od.9.94, cf. Hdt.2.96, 4.177, Thphr.HP4.3.1-4, Plb.12.2.2.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
nom de diverses plantes :
1 lotus grec, qu’on donnait aux chevaux comme fourrage;
2 lotus de Cyrénaïque ou des Lotophages, càd jujubier ; fruit de cet arbre, càd lotus ou jujube;
3 lotus d’Égypte, sorte de nénuphar;
4 lotus du N de l’Afrique, d’un bois dur et noir ; flûte en bois de ce lotus.
Étymologie: DELG terme médit. d’origine obscure.
English (Autenrieth)
lotus.—(1) a species of clover, Od. 4.603, Il. 14.348.—(2) the tree and fruit enjoyed by the Lotus-eaters, Od. 9.91 ff. Said to be a plant with fruit the size of olives, in taste resembling dates, still prized in Tunis and Tripoli under the name of Jujube.
