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|Definition=ὁ (λῶτα· ἄνθη, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] is perhaps for [[ἄωτα]]), name applied to various plants and trees ([[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 7.15.3, Plin.''HN''14.101, cf. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]) providing fodder or fruit:<br><span class="bld">I</span> fodder plants,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[clover]], [[trefoil]], [[Trifolium fragiferum]], Od.4.603, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 7.8.3, 7.13.5, Dsc. 4.111.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[fellbloom]], [[Lotus corniculatus]], Il.14.348, Plin.''HN''22.55.<br><span class="bld">3</span> = [[τῆλις]], [[fenugreek]], [[Trigonella foenum-graecum]], Dsc.2.102; <b class="b3">λ. ἄγριος</b> [[wild fenugreek]], [[T. gladiata]], Id.4.111, Gal.12.65.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[melilot]], [[T. graeca]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 9.7.3.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[Italian melilot]], [[Melilotus messanensis]], Dsc.4.110, Gal. [[l.c.]]<br><span class="bld">5</span> = [[κύτισος]], [[Medicago arborea]], Ps.-Dsc.4.112.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[Nile water-lily]], [[Egyptian lotus]], [[Nymphaea lotus]], Hdt.2.92, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.8.9, ''PHib.''1.152 (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.113, Plin.''HN''13.107; the blue species ([[Nymphaea stellata]]), [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.8.11; also, [[Nymphaea nelumbo]], Ath.3.73a.<br><span class="bld">III</span> of trees found in Libya,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[nettle-tree]], [[Celtis australis]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 1.5.3, 4.3.1, Dsc. 1.117, etc.; used for making flutes, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.3.4: hence<br><span class="bld">b</span> in E. (lyr.) and later poets, [[flute]], λ.… Μουσᾶν θεράπων ''El.''716, cf. ''Pae.Delph.''12, ''AP''7.182 (pl., Mel.); Λίβυς λ. E.''Tr.''544, ''Hel.''170, ''IA'' 1036, prob. in Limen.13.<br><span class="bld">c</span> [[pipe]] inserted in the [[νάβλα]], Sopat. 10.<br><span class="bld">d</span> [[tube]] or [[stalk]] of vaginal speculum, Aët. 16.89, Paul.Aeg. 6.73.<br><span class="bld">2</span> tree growing among the Lotophagi, [[Zizyphus lotus]], λωτοῖο… μελιηδέα καρπόν Od.9.94, cf. Hdt.2.96, 4.177, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.3.1-4, Plb.12.2.2.