The corpus record

ῥάμνος

ramnos · ἡ

prickly shrubs

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Where it lives

Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 3 · 2.05/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

prickly shrubs, Box-thorn, Lycium europaeum, Stone buckthorn, Rhamnus graeca, Black buckthorn, R. oleoides

prickly shrubs, Eup. 14.5, Theoc. 4.57, 21.36, Plb. 12.2.2, IG 14.352 ii 32 (Halaesa); Box-thorn, Lycium europaeum, Dsc. 1.90, Paus. 3.14.7; ῥ. λευκή (λευκοτέρα Dsc. l.c.) Stone buckthorn, Rhamnus graeca, Thphr. HP 3.18.2; ῥ. μέλαινα Black buckthorn, R. oleoides, ibid.

In the wild

ῥάμνον · rhamnon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3543)
ῥάμνῳ · rhamnōi Septuaginta, Epistula Jeremiae (DIORISIS sentence 53)
ῥάμνον · rhamnon Septuaginta, Judices (cod. Al.) 9
ῥάμνου · rhamnou Septuaginta, Judices (cod. Al.) 9
ῥάμνος · rhamnos Septuaginta, Judices (cod. Al.) 9
ῥάμνον · rhamnon Septuaginta, Psalmi 57

Where it came from

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