Blêchôn: hê glêchôn. houtôs legetai para Attikois. esti de eidos botanês. kai to ephêbaion Aristophanês houtôs onomazei.
See also
beta 339.
[1]
blh/xwn is the Attic form, while
glh/xwn is the Ionic (and
gla/xwn the Doric); cf.
gamma 287.
[2] Pennyroyal, a plant of the mint family (
Mentha pulegium), is native to most parts of Europe and has slightly hairy oval-shaped leaves and whorled clusters of deep purple or lilac blue colored flowers. It was esteemed by
Pliny and other ancient writers for its powers of purification.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 89 (web address 1 below). See generally J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 135 #129: 'pennyroyal is used jokingly by Lysistrata to refer to the Boeotian girl's neatly depilated
campus muliebris, with a clever reference to the smooth, fertile plains of that region'.
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