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θύμον [υ^], τό, Arist.HA626b21, Pr.925a9, Thphr.HP6.2.3.: dual
A.“θύμω” Pherecr.167: pl., “θύμα” Eup.14.5, Antiph.179.4: gen. “θύμων” Ar.Pl.283; “θυμέων” AP9.226.2 (Zonas):—also θύμος , ὁ, Dsc.3.36:— Cretan thyme, Thymbra capitata, ll.cc., Hp.Vict.2.54, al.; “τὸ μύρον φάσκειν οὐδὲν τοῦ θ. ἥδιον ὄζειν” Thphr.Char.4.1.
b. a marine plant, Id.HP4.7.2.
2. mixture of thyme with honey and vinegar, eaten by the poor of Attica, Ar.Pl.253, cf. 283, Antiph.226.7, Luc.Fug.14, Hsch.
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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    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 253
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 283
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 4.1
    • Lucian, Fugitivi, 14
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