β513Βράβηλα
sloes
What are called Damaskenes. Theocritus [writes]: "...shoots weighed down to the ground with sloes." Athenaeus in Book 2 of the Deipnosophists says that Seleucus uses the words 'plums' and 'sloes' and ba/drua. It has…
Βράβηλα· τὰ καλούμενα Δαμασκηνά. Θεόκριτος· ὄρπακες βραβήλοισι καταβρίθοντες ἔραζε. Ἀθηναῖος δὲ ἐν τῷ βʹ τῶν Δειπνοσοφιστῶν φησι Σέλευκον ὀνομάζειν κοκκύμηλα καὶ βράβηλα καὶ…