Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσφάραγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσφάραγος ἀσφάραγη ἀσφάραγον

Structure: ἀσφαραγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a euphon. , sparga/w

Sense

  1. asparagus

Examples

  • "Κρατῖνοσ δὲ διὰ τοῦ ἀσφάραγον ὀνομάζει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52134)
  • "καὶ Θεόπομποσ κἄπειτ’ ἰδὼν ἀσφάραγον ἐν θάμνῳ τινί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52135)
  • "οὐ σχῖνοσ οὐδ’ ἀσφάραγοσ, οὐ δάφνησ κλάδοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52137)
  • "Δίφιλοσ δέ φησιν ὡσ ὁ τῆσ κράμβησ ἀσφάραγοσ λεγόμενοσ ἰδίωσ ὄρμενοσ εὐστομαχώτερόσ ἐστι καὶ εὐεκκριτώτεροσ, ὄψεων δὲ βλαπτικόσ, ἐστὶ δὲ δριμὺσ καὶ οὐρητικὸσ καὶ ἀδικεῖ νεφροὺσ καὶ κύστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52138)
  • ἀσφάραγον σχῖνόν τε τεμὼν καὶ ὀρίγανον, ὃσ δὴ σεμνύνει τὸ τάριχον ὁμοῦ μιχθεὶσ κοριάννῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 77 2:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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