Prassium
Prassium grece marrubium album prassium.
Apparatus:
Prassium (-uʒ C;-ũ A e) ABC e | Prasion f
marrubium (-ũ A) AC | marubiũ B ef
{album} prassium om. B
Translation:
Prassium is Greek for Latin marrubium album {"white horehound"} also called {adopted from Greek} prassium.
Commentary and botanical identification:
Greek πράσιον /prásion/, adopted into Latin as prasion/prasium, is identified in LSJ with several plants: Marrubium vulgare L. "white horehound" [[1]] with a near pan-European distribution is the most widely accepted botanical identification; or M. peregrinum L. "branched horehound" [[2]], [[3]], a plant of South-Eastern Europe; Thymus Teucrioides Boiss. & Spruner "goat’s marjoram” [[4]], [[5]] from the mountains of Greece and Albania; and the near pan-European Ballota nigra L. "black horehound" [[6]]. Apart from these the name also appears to denote a sea-weed in Aristotle’s Historia Animalium.
WilfGunther 13/01/14
See also: Marubium, Faraxion, Filoflores
