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Βάδιλλος
shovel
… is its best-attested meaning (in e.g. Varro and the elder
Pliny);
but see also Lewis & Short s.v. batillum or vatillum (sic: normally neuter) for Horace, Satires 1.5.36, where it means something like a …
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Βεστιάριον
vestiarium, wardrobe
… Adler, in the unpublished Lexicon codicis Barocciani 50. See e.g.
Pliny,
Natural History 15.8.8.33. For "costly" see LSJ s.v. a)nagkai=os, II.7.
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Βλήχων
pennyroyal
… purple or lilac blue colored flowers. It was esteemed by
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and other ancient writers for its powers of purification. [3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 89 (web address 1 below). See generally J. Henderson, The Maculate …
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