The corpus record — Latin

Telephion

Telephion · n

a kind of herb resembling purslane

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

tēlĕphĭon — Lewis & Short

tēlĕphĭon, ii, n., = thle/fion,

I a kind of herb resembling purslane: Sedum telephium, Linn.; Plin. 27, 13, 110, § 137.

In the wild

Telephion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.13.p2
Telephion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.27.p110

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.