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Question 10. What is Phyxemelum?
Solution. It is one of the small plants that creep upon
the ground, upon whose branches the cattle treading do
hinder, hurt, and spoil their growth. Where therefore
they have attained some considerable bigness by growth,
and escaped the injury of those that use to feed upon
them, they are called φυξίμηλα (i.e. that have escaped the
danger of cattle), of which Aeschylus is witness.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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