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μ1436Μυριέλικτοςcountless-coiled; with countless coils… [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms G substituted polu\s (large) for baru\s, literally heavy; that H. Stephanus deleted the parenthetical remark; and that Jonathan Toup, comparing this passage with kappa 408, excised …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1276Μοσχίδια σύκωνyoung shootlets of figs… at alpha 279, but cf. alpha 280) is Vitex agnus-castus (Polunin no. 1087), a shrub native to the Mediterranean region whose fruit was used to season food. It was believed that Vitex had medicinal …Matched in noteshighshort
κ458ΚάσοςKasos, Casus… to northern Africa, southern Europe, and Asia (Tutin, p. 259; Polunin, no. 1801), but gets its common modern name from having propagated so invasively on the island of Bermuda. [2] Aelian fr. 120 Hercher …Matched in noteshighshort