σέλινον

σέλῑνον, τό, [dialect] Aeol. [full] σέλιννον Choerob.in An.Ox.2.258:—

A celery, Apium graveolens, Il.2.776, Od.5.72, Batr.54, Ar.Nu.982, Eub.36 (pl.), Thphr.HP1.2.2, CP6.11.10, Nic.Th.649;

σελίνου σπέρμα Hdt.4.71

; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr.HP9.11.10;

σελίνων στεφανίσκοι Anacr.54

, cf. Theoc.3.23, AP4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi.O.13.33; Κορίνθια ς. Id.N.4.88, cf. I.2.16, Com.Adesp.153, D.S.16.79; such chaplets were also hung on tombs,

τὸ σ. πένθεσι προσήκει Duris 33

J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said δεῖσθαι τοῦ ς., Plu.2.676d, cf. Tim. 26;

σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ Artem.1.77

; mostly planted in garden borders (cf.

σ. κηπαῖον Dsc.3.64

), hence prov., οὐδ' ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδ' ἐν πηγάνῳ ''tis scarcely begun yet', Ar.V.480.

2 σ. ἄγριον,= βατράχιον, Dsc.2.175;= σμύρνιον, Ps.-Dsc.3.67;= ἐλεοσέλινον, ib.64.

II pudenda muliebria, Phot., cf. Sch.Theoc.11.10. [[pron. full] ῐ only in AP7.621.]