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ἄλυσσον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: alysson

Principal Part: ἄλυσσον

Structure: ἀλυσς (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. name of a certain plant used for curing madness; according to LSJ, specifically madwort (Farsetia clypeata → Fibigia clypeata) and Galen's madwort (Sideritis romana)

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὴν δ ἄλυσσον καλουμένην βοτάνην καὶ λαβόντες εἰς τὴν χεῖρα μόνον, οἱ δὲ καὶ προσβλέψαντες, ἀπαλλάττονται λυγμοῦ: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 10:31)
  • καὶ Ἄλυσσον τοῦδε ἕνεκα ὀνομάζουσι τὴν πηγήν: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:2)

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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