limĕum — Lewis & Short
limĕum, i, n.,
I a kind of herb, with the poisonous juice of which the Gauls anointed their arrows used in hunting, Plin. 27, 11, 76, § 101.
The corpus record — Latin
limeum
limeum · n
a kind of herb, with the poisonous juice of which the Gauls anointed their arrows used in hunting
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. limeum (scan p. 383; entry #6061).
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