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pappus , i, m., = πάππος.
I. An old man, Varr. L. L. 7, § 30 Müll.—
2. A grandfather, Aus. Idyll. 4, 18.—
II. The woolly, hairy seed of certain plants, Lucr. 3, 386 Lachm.; also ap. Fest. p. 220 Müll.: “semen ei lanuginis, quam pappon vocant,Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.—
III. A plant, also called erigeron: “quare eam Callimachus acanthida appellat, alii pappum,Plin. 25, 13, 106, § 168.
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.386
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 21.97
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