Difference between revisions of "Cunilla"

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Cunilla apud Plinium habet species, una sativa que cunilla bubylla appellatur semen pulegii simile, quidam hanc panaceam falso vocant, est et alia cunilla appellata a nostris, a grecis origanum heracleoticum. tertium genus est eius que a grecis mascula a nostris cunillago vocatur odoris fetidi radicis limose folio aspero et cetera, et infra, alia que mollis vocatur pilosioribus ramis et aculeatis, trita mellis habet odorem digitis tactu eius coherentibus.

Apparatus:

Cunilla ABCR e | Cũilla D | Cunila Pliny

habet species ACDR e | .iii. habet species B

cunilla bubylla AD | cunilla bubyla CR | cunilla bubula B | cunula bilbula e | Cunila … bubula Pliny

appellatur ACDR e | appelatur B

pulegii ABCDR | pullegii e | pulei Pliny

panaceam ACDR | pẽacẽ B | penaceӡ e

cunilla appellata ACDR | ciruilacea apelata B | cunnulacea appellata e | cunila gallinacea appellata Pliny

a nostris origanum ACDR | a nostris a grecis vero origanum B | a nostris a grecis vero origanuӡ e | nostris, Graecis origanum Pliny

tertium genus ABCDR | Terciũ genus vero e

cunillago ACR e | cunilago BD

fetidi ACDR | fedi B e | foedi Pliny

limose ABCDR e | lignosae Pliny

aspero et cetera ABCDR | aspero. deest etcetera in e

mollis ACDR e | molis B

pilosioribus ACBDR | pillosioribus e

mellis ACDR e | melis B

habet odorem ACDR | odorem habet B e

coherentibus ABCDR e | cohaerescentibus Pliny

Translation:

Cunilla in Pliny has several kinds, a cultivated one called cunilla bubula {"ox-cunilla"}, with seed similar to pulegium {"pennyroyal"}, which some people call falsely panacea. And there is a second cunilla so called by our people {but by the Greeks} origanum heracleoticum. The third kind is the one that is called mascula {"male"} by the Greeks and by us cunillago; it has a root that smells fetid and is miry {but Pliny: "like wood"}, with rough leaves, etc.

And further down {Pliny says}: There is yet another cunilla, which is called mollis {"the soft one"}, with branches that are more hairy and thorny, and when crushed it has the smell of honey; on touch it makes the fingers stick together.