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Headword: Silphios
Adler number: sigma,422
Translated headword: silphium
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A highly esteemed plant. Here [is] the reason. Battos, also known as Aristoteles, founded a city in Libya called Cyrene. When the Cyreneans wished to thank their king for his benevolence, they created a signet-ring on which their city [was shown] bringing silphium to the king. Its leaf and fruit and shoot and juice are all very valuable. And the Ampeliotes, a Libyan people, dedicated a shaft of silphium at Delphi.[1]
See under "the silphium of Battos."[2]
Greek Original:
Silphios: botanê polutimêtos. hê de aitia hautê. Battos, ho kai Aristotelês, polin en Libuêi Kurênên legomenên ektisen. hoi de Kurênaioi boulomenoi antapodosin tês euergesias charisasthai tôi basilei epoiêsan daktulion, en hôi hê polis autôn prospherei tôi basilei to silphion. kai to phullon de autou kai ho karpos kai ho klados kai ho opos pollês timês estin axion. kai hoi Ampeliôtai, ethnê Libuês, eis Delphous anethesan kaulon silphiou. zêtei en tôi Battou silphion.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 925, where silphion (sic: the Suda is wrong to make the word masculine) is mentioned.
[2] beta 186 and beta 187; see also sigma 423; phi 604. Cf. Catullus 7.4-6 (web address 1).
References:
OCD4 s.v. Cyrene and s.v. pharmacology
Dalby, A. Siren Feasts. London: Routledge: 1996, pp.86-87
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; history; medicine; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 18 December 2000@14:39:15.
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David Whitehead (modified translation; added bibliography and keyword) on 19 December 2000@03:26:24.
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