The corpus record

μηκών-ιον

mekonion · τό

opium, discharge from the bowels of new-born children

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What it meant

μηκών-ιον · mēkōn-ion — LSJ

= μήκων V, Hp. Acut.(Sp.) 72, Fist. 7.

2 opium

opium, Phld. Mort. 9.

= τιθύμαλλος, Thphr. HP 9.8.2.

II discharge from the bowels of new-born children

discharge from the bowels of new-born children, Arist. HA 587a31, Gal. 19.176: also written -ειον, Sor. 1.81.

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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