cancerous sore, canker
cancerous sore, canker, A. Fr. 253, E. Fr. 792, Hp. Aër. 10, D. 25.95, IG 42(1).123.135 (Epid., iv B. C.), Gal. 7.727.
2
a disease of bees, Colum. 9.13.10.
II
= φάγαινα I, Gal. 19.419.
The corpus record
φᾰγέδαιν-α
phagedaina · ἡ
cancerous sore, canker
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Where it lives
- Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- φαγέδαινα · phagedaina Aristotle, Ars Poetica 22
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.