Μανδραγόρας

mandrake, belladonna

Translated by Catharine Roth9 Aug 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 18 words
A soporific fruit.1
Or one which causes amnesia.2
"And [he] will clearly have drunk a lot of mandrake."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μανδραγόρας· ὑπνωτικὸς καρπός. ἢ λήθης ποιητικός. καὶ φανεῖται πολὺν τὸν μανδραγόραν ἐκπεπωκώς.

Betacode
*mandrago/ras: u(pnwtiko\s karpo/s. h)\ lh/qhs poihtiko/s. kai\ fanei=tai polu\n to\n mandrago/ran e)kpepwkw/s.

Notes (3)

  1. Mandragora officinalis, mandragora autumnalis, or Atropa belladonna (see web address 1).
  2. 1Likewise or similarly elsewhere (including a scholion on Plato, Republic 488C): see the references at Photius mu89 Theodoridis. See also mu 137. ↩
  3. 2Similarly in Etymologicum Magnum 574.60. ↩
  4. 3Julian, Epistle 81.11-12. ↩

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μ134Μανδαλωτόνbolted-shutμ135Μανδάτωροςmandator, one who receives a commissionμ136Μανδραγόραςmandrake, belladonnaμ137ΜανδραγορίζωI drug [someone] with mandrake.μ138ΜάνδρωνMandron
Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Jul 2016
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. coding; more keywords — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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