Citations:erysimon

Latin citations of erysimon

• AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book XXII, chapter lxxv:

  irionem inter fruges sesamae similem esse diximus et a graecis erysimon vocari, galli velam appellant.

  When treating of the cereals, we have already stated that the irio, which strongly resembles sesame, is also called “erysimon” by the Greeks: the Gauls give it the name of “vela.”

  (translation from: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History (1855), book XXII: “The Properties of Plants and Fruits”, chapter lxxv: ‘Irio, or Erysimum, by the Gauls called Vela: Fifteen remedies’)