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carduus

carduus · m

the thistle

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

carduus — Lewis & Short

carduus, i (access. form cardus, ūs, Edict. Diocl. p. 17; cf. m.,

Charis. p. 57 P.),

I the thistle.

1 The wild thistle, Verg. G. 1, 152; Col. 7, 8, 1; Plin. 20, 23, 99, § 262; Veg. 1, 7, 14.—

2 The esculent thistle or artichoke, = cinara, Plin. 19, 8, 43, § 152 sq.; Pall. Mart. 9, 1, 3; id. Oct. 11, 1.

In the wild

carduus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.15.p5
carduus Vergil, Georgicon 1.152
carduus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p1
carduus Vergil, Eclogues 5
carduus Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.985
Carduus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. carduus (scan p. 124; entry #1785).

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