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φυλία

φυλία, the wild olive

φῠλία, poet. φυλίη, ἡ,
  • a tree mentioned with the olive in Od. 5.477 (δοιοὺς . . θάμνους, ἐξ ὁμόθεν πεφυῶτας—ὁ μὲν φυλίης, ὁ δʼ ἐλαίης), apptly. (cf. Sch. ad loc., Hsch.) a kind of wild olive, but distd. fr. κότινος and said to be Troezenian by Paus. 2.32.10 (written φυλλία), cf. Philostr. Gym. 43, Nonn. D. 5.474; wrongly identified by Ammon. Diff. p.135 V. with σχῖνος.

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