Ἀσφάραγον

[Meaning] throat,¹ stomach, neck. It is also the word for the off-shoot growing off thorn plants. But asparagos is a certain type of plant, suitable for cleansing [sc. of morbid humours]. Thus the Attic [writers] cite the word with the phi, but many who are not precise say it with the pi.² And generally they call the first parts of herbs/vegetables to be seen "asparagus".³