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Hyonchos AC | Hionchos B | Hioncos ep | Hiontos j <br />
 
Hyonchos AC | Hionchos B | Hioncos ep | Hiontos j <br />
 
{Plinius} est ABC jp | et e <br />
 
{Plinius} est ABC jp | et e <br />
cauo ABC ep | cano j <br />
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cavo | cano j <br />
fractus ABC jp | fructus ''ms''. e <br />
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fractus | fructus ''ms''. e <br />
manat ABC ej | manet p
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manat | manet p
  
  

Latest revision as of 11:08, 9 October 2016

Hyonchos Plinius est duorum generum caule utroque albus et niger lactuce similes ambo nisi essent spinosi caule cubitali anguloso intus cavo sed qui fractus copioso lacte manat et cetera.


Apparatus:

Whole entry mssing in f
Hyonchos AC | Hionchos B | Hioncos ep | Hiontos j
{Plinius} est ABC jp | et e
cavo | cano j
fractus | fructus ms. e
manat | manet p


Translation:

Hyonchos: according to Pliny there are two kinds with a stem of one being white and the other dark and both are similar to lactuca {"lettuce"} except for being spiny, with a stem a cubit long, angular and inside hollow; but when broken it issues a large amount of milky juice, etc.


Commentary:

The text is a near-verbatim quote from Pliny W.H.S. Jones XXII (1969: 354,xliv,§ 88).

Hyonchos:
is a corruption of Latin sonchos/ sonchus which is taken from Greek σόγχος /sónkhos/, also found as σόγκος /sónkos/, latinised soncos, often identified as a plant of the genus Sonchus {“sow-thistle”} [[1]], see also below. The degree of corruption of the initial letter of this word is puzzling since “Hy/hy/Hi/hi” do not resemble the expected “S/s”.
Since all the witnesses consulted show this misreading and the lemma is listed under “H” it must have occurred very early on, perhaps even to Simon himself.

A very similar text is found in Dioscorides and quoted by Simon under Soncos and Sorex. Only there the two kinds of sonchos are distinguished as the wild kind and the edible kind, while Pliny speaks of the white and dark kinds, but the rest of the description is remarkably similar. This points to a common source Pliny and Dioscorides drew upon.


Botanical identification:

André (1985: 243) s.v. sonc(h)os sees in Pliny’s description of sonc(h)os albus the plant Sonchus oleraceus L. [[2]] and in the darker kind possibly S. oleraceus or Sonchus asper L. [[3]].


WilfGunther (talk) 14:06, 4 June 2016 (BST)


See also Soncos, Sorex


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