ἱππομανής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἱππομανές,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[abounding in]], [[swarming with horses]] (cf. <b class="b3">καρπο-, ὑλο-, φυλλο-μανής</b>), λειμών [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''143 (anap.); variously expld. by Sch.<br><span class="bld">II</span> as [[substantive]], [[ἱππομανές]], [[έος]], τό, an Arcadian plant, [[thorn-apple]], [[Datura stramonium]], [[of which horses are madly fond]], or [[which makes them mad]], Theoc.2.48; [[falsa lectio|f.l.]] for [[ἱπποφαές]] in [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 9.15.6.<br><span class="bld">b</span> = [[κάππαρις]], Dsc.2.173; = [[ἀπόκυνον]], Ps.-Dsc.4.80.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal]], which, if procured before it was eaten off by the dam, was held to be a powerful [[φίλτρον]], Arist.''HA''577a9, 605a2, [[Theophrastus]] ''Fragmenta'' 175, Ael.''NA''3.17, 14.18.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[mucous humour that runs from mares a-horsing]], used for like purposes, Arist.''HA''572a21, Paus.5.27.3.