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Headword: Ἄγχουσα
Adler number: alpha,416
Translated headword: alkanet, bugloss, rouge
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A type of plant, which has a red root used by women to redden their faces. "Alkanet will harm [you] as will that white lead[1] of yours".[2]
Greek Original:
Ἄγχουσα: εἶδος βοτάνης, ἧς ἡ ῥίζα ἐρυθρὰ, ᾗ ἐρυθραίνουσι τὰ πρόσωπα αἱ γυναῖκες. ἡ ἄγχουσ' ὀδυνήσει καὶ τὸ σὸν ψιμμύθιον.
Notes:
anchusa tinctoria: ἄγχουσα here; Attic ἔγχουσα in Aristophanes, Lysistrata 48 and elsewhere.
Besides what follows here (and in epsilon 3093) see e.g. Theophrastus, History of Plants 7.9.3.
[1] This was also used as a facial cosmetic: see psi 108.
[2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 928-9, telescoped (see web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; medicine; science and technology; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 October 2000@11:54:11.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 1 November 2000@03:19:17.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference and link) on 18 December 2007@20:12:30.
David Whitehead (modified headword; augmented notes and keywords) on 19 December 2007@03:20:07.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 9 January 2012@08:50:27.
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