A.celery, Apium graveolens, Il.2.776, Od.5.72, Batr.54, Ar.Nu.982, Eub.36 (pl.), Thphr.HP1.2.2, CP6.11.10, Nic.Th.649; “σελίνου σπέρμα” Hdt.4.71; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr.HP9.11.10; “σελίνων στεφανίσκοι” Anacr.54, cf. Theoc.3.23, AP4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi.O.13.33; Κορίνθια ς. Id.N.4.88, cf. I.2.16, Com.Adesp.153, D.S.16.79; such chaplets were also hung on tombs, “τὸ ς. πένθεσι προσήκει” Duris 33 J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said δεῖσθαι τοῦ ς., Plu.2.676d, cf. Tim. 26; “σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ” Artem.1.77; mostly planted in garden borders (cf. “ς. κηπαῖον” Dsc.3.64), hence prov., οὐδ᾽ ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδ᾽ ἐν πηγάνῳ ''tis scarcely begun yet', Ar.V.480.
σέλι_νον , τό, Aeol. σέλιννον Choerob.in An.Ox.2.258:—