I.the aloe, Plin. 27, 4, 5; used as a medicine, Cels 1, 3; 2, 12; “as a perfume,” Vulg. Prov. 7, 17; ib Cant. 4, 14; “in embalming,” ib. Joan. 19, 39.—On accouns of its bitterness, trop.: plus aloës quam mellis habet, * Juv. 6, 180.
ălŏē , ēs, f. (n. in Veg. Art. Vet. 1, 14. 5; 1, 45, 5), = ἀλόη,