ĕpĭnyctis — Lewis & Short
ĕpĭnyctis, ĭdis, f., = e)pinukti/s.
I Night-blains, pustules that arise in the night, Plin. 20, 2, 6, § 12 (in Cels. 5, 28, 15, written as Greek).—
II A kind of sore in the eyelid; also called syce, Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 44.
The corpus record — Latin
epinyctis
epinyctis · f
Night-blains
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Where it lives
- De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- epinyctides Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.13.p2
- epinyctis Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p17
- epinyctides Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.4.p1
- Epinyctis Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p17
- epinyctides Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.6.p1
- epinyctidi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.3.p1
Where it came from
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