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μάγ-μα

magma · τό

thick unguent

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What it meant — LSJ

thick unguent

thick unguent, Plin. HN 13.19, PTeb. 273.17 (ii/ iii A. D.); esp. μ. ἡδύχρουν, an ingredient in the Theriaca Andromachi, Androm. ap. Gal. 14.39; also, of a plaster, Id. ap. eund. 13.925; cf. ἡδύχρους.

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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