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λωτός

λωτός, the lotus; flute, pipe, tube

λωτός, ὁ (λῶτα· ἄνθη, Hsch. is perh. for ἄωτα), name applied to various plants and trees (Thphr. HP 7.15.3, Plin. HN 14.101, cf. Hsch.) providing fodder or fruit:
    • I fodder plants,
      • 1 clover, trefoil, Trifolium fragiferum, Od. 4.603, Thphr. HP 7.8.3, 7.13.5, Dsc. 4.111.
      • 2 fellbloom, Lotus corniculatus, Il. 14.348, Plin. HN 22.55.
      • 3 = τῆλις, fenugreek, Trigonella Foenum-graecum, Dsc. 2.102; λ. ἄγριος wild fenugreek, T. gladiata, Id. 4.111, Gal. 12.65.
      • 4 melilot, T. graeca, Thphr. HP 9.7.3.
        • b Italian melilot, Melilotus messanensis, Dsc. 4.110, Gal. l.c.
      • 5 = κύτισος, Medicago arborea, Ps.-Dsc. 4.112.
    • II Nile water-lily, Egyptian lotus, Nymphaea Lotus, Hdt. 2.92, Thphr. HP 4.8.9, PHib. 1.152 (iii B.C.), Dsc. 4.113, Plin. HN 13.107; the blue species (Nymphaea stellata), Thphr. HP 4.8.11; also, Nymphaea Nelumbo, Ath. 3.73a.
    • III of trees found in Libya,
      • 1 nettle-tree, Celtis australis, Thphr. HP 1.5.3, 4.3.1, Dsc. 1.117, etc.; used for making flutes, Thphr. HP 4.3.4: hence
        • b in E. (lyr.) and later poets, flute, λ. . . Μουσᾶν θεράπων El. 716, cf. Pae.Delph. 12, AP 7.182 (pl., Mel.); Λίβυς λ. E. Tr. 544, Hel. 170, IA 1036, prob. in Limen. 13.
        • c pipe inserted in the νάβλα, Sopat. 10.
        • d tube or stalk of vaginal speculum, Aët. 16.89, Paul.Aeg. 6.73.
      • 2 tree growing among the Lotophagi, Zizyphus Lotus, λωτοῖο . . μελιηδέα καρπόν Od. 9.94, cf. Hdt. 2.96, 4.177, Thphr. HP 4.3.1-4, Plb. 12.2.2.

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