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lāser (lāsar ), ĕris, n.,
I.the juice of the plant laserpitium, assafœtida.
I. Lit.: “laser e silphio profluens,Plin. 22, 23, 49, § 101; cf.: “cujus sucum vocant laser,id. 19, 3, 15, § 38: “laser Cyrenaicum vino diluere,Col. Arb. 23.—Jestingly of Maecenas: laser Arretinum, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4, 12. —Form lasar: “lasaris radix,Apic. 8, 7.—
II. Meton., the plant laserpitium itself: “laseris radix,Plin. 19, 8, 43, § 153; Scrib. Comp. 192: 196.
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