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σκαμμων-ία

skammonia

Alep», plante purgative (Eub., Arist., Thphr.), d

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What it meant

1. σκαμμωνία · skammōnia — Chantraine

σκαμμωνία : f. «liseron scammonée, scammonée d'Alep», plante purgative (Eub., Arist., Thphr.), d'où -μώνιον n. «suc de cette plante» (Nic. Αἱ. 565); oxauμωνίτης οἶνος vin purgatif parfumé avec cette plante (Dsc., Pline), Nicandre a aussi κάμων (Al. 484). Et.: Pour le suffixe, cf. Chantraine, Formation 208. Selon Dsc. 4,170, le mot serait d’origine sémitique, οἵ. κύμῖνον. — [Chantraine, s.v. σκαμμωνία, p. 1030]

2. σκαμμων-ία · skammōn-ia — LSJ

scammony, Convolvulus, Scammonia, Scammony

scammony, Convolvulus, Scammonia, from the roots of which the purgative medicine Scammony is extracted, Eub. 19, Arist. Pr. 864a4, b13, Thphr. HP 4.5.1, 9.1.3, al., Dsc. 4.170; also σκαμμώνιον, τό, Nic. Al. 565; σκαμώνειον, Anon. Lond.37.19; cf. ἀσκαμωνία, κάμων. [σκᾰμωνία Eub. l.c.; the spelling with one μ is found also in Thphr. HP 9.1.4 codd., 9.9.1 codd., Sor. 1.125, Hsch., and as v.l. in Dsc. l.c.; cf. σκαμώνειον; but σκαμμώνιον is corroborated by the metre in Nic. l.c.]

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