Διὸς ἄνθος
Zeus' blossom, Zeus' flower
Translated by Antonella Ippolito11 Jan 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[The name of] a thorny plant.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διὸς ἄνθος· φυτὸν ἀκανθῶδες.
Betacode
*dio\s a)/nqos: futo\n a)kanqw=des.
Notes
- The carnation, Dianthus inodorus. Mentioned several times -- as a single word,
dio/sanqos -- in Theophrastus, Historia plantarum (Enquiry into Plants): 6.1.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.11, 6.8.3.
The classification of it as a thorny plant (here and in Hesychius s.v.) is a misreading of the first of these passages; woody, rather.