Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9059
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9059
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c. A.D. 600-700.—“Μαμιράς, οἷον ῥίζιον τι πόας ἐστὶν ἔχον ὥσπερ κονδύλους πυκνούς, ὅπος οὐλάς τε καὶ λευκώματα λεπ- τύνειν πεπιστεύεται, δηλονότι ῥυπτικῆς ὑπάρ- χον δυνάμεως.”—*Pauli Aeginetae Medici, Libri vii.*, Basileae 1538. Lib. vii. cap. iii. sect. 12 (p. 246).