A.flax, and the linen made from it, Emp.93, Theoc.2.73, etc.; used of perennial flax, Linum angustifolium, grown in Elis, Paus.6.26.6, and of Linum usitatissimum, = λίνον Ἑβραίων, Id.5.5.2; also, in later writers, of Indian cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, Poll. 7.76, Philostr.VA2.20; and of silk, “τὰ Σηρικὰ ἔκ τινων φλοιῶν ξαινουένης βύσσου” Str.15.1.20.
βύσσος , ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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