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tithymallus

From LSJ

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Latin > German (Georges)

tithymallus, ī, c. u. tithymalon, ī, n. (τιθύμαλλος, τιθύμαλον), die Wolfsmilch, eine Pflanze mit einem milchartigen Safte (Euphorbia, L.), deren Arten bei Plin. 26, 62 sqq. u. Ps. Apul. herb. 108; vgl. Ser. Samm. 841 u. 1106.