λαμψάνη
From LSJ
ὅτι μέντοι καὶ ἡ χρῆσις τῶν τρόπων, ὥσπερ τἆλλα πάντα καλὰ ἐν λόγοις, προαγωγὸν ἀεὶ πρὸς τὸ ἄμετρον, δῆλον ἤδη, κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ λέγω → however, it is also obvious, even without my saying so, that the use of figures of speech, like other literary adornments, is something that has always tempted toward excess
English (LSJ)
German (Pape)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λαμψάνη: ἡ, = λαψάνη.
Greek Monolingual
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: kind of cabbage, Brassica arvensis; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 24: because of the gleaming colour (Dsc., Gal.; pap. )
Other forms: Also λαψ-, λεψ-. Further λαψάνη τῶν ἀγρίων λαχάνων ἐσθιομένη H.; and λάψα γογγυλίς. Πεγαῖοι H.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: The variants (note λεψ-) prove Pre-Greek origin; unclear to me Fur. 285 n. 65.
