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ἡλιο-σκόπιος

*elioskopios

looking to the sun

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What it meant

ἡλιο-σκόπιος · hēlio-skopios — LSJ

looking to the sun, sun-spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia

looking to the sun: ἡ. τιθύμαλλος sun-spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia, Dsc. 4.164, cf. Ruf. ap. Orib. 7.26.39 (v.l. -σκόπος), Plin. HN 26.69.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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