sweet-smelling, fragrant, εὔοδμον ἔαρ Pi. Fr. 75.15; εὐόδμοισι προσθετοῖσι Hp. Loc.Hom. 47; εὔοσμον μύρον Achae. 17, cf. E. Ba. 235; εὐόδμοισι σελίνοις, νέκταρος εὐόδμοιο, Theoc. 3.23, 17.29; v.l. for εὐώδης in D.P. 937; εὔοδμος τῇ ὀσφρήσει Thphr. HP 9.13.3: Comp. and Sup., Id. CP 6.16.1.
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cup or calyx of a flower, ἀνεμωνῶν κάλυξι . . ἠριναῖς Cratin. 98; κισσοῖο καλύκεσσι Theoc. 3.23; ὅσα ἐν κάλυκι ἀνθεῖ Arist. HA 554a12; [ φύλλοις] τοῖς τῶν ῥόδων ὅταν ἐν κάλυξιν ὦσι Thphr. HP 4.10.3; ῥόδου κ. ibid.; so in Poets, rosebud, h.Cer. 427, AP 12.8 ( Strato), etc.: metaph., σταθερὰ . . κ. νεαρᾶς ἥβης Ar. Fr. 467.
celery, Apium graveolens, Il. 2.776, Od. 5.72, Batr. 54, Ar. Nu. 982, Eub. 36 (pl.), Thphr. HP 1.2.2, CP 6.11.10, Nic. Th. 649; σελίνου σπέρμα Hdt. 4.71; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr. HP 9.11.10; σελίνων στεφανίσκοι Anacr. 54, cf. Theoc. 3.23, AP 4.1.31 ( Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi. O. 13.33; Κορίνθια σ. Id. N. 4.88, cf. I. 2.16, Com.Adesp. 153, D.S. 16.79; such chaplets were also hung on tombs, τὸ σ. πένθεσι προσήκει Duris 33 J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said δεῖσθαι τοῦ σ., Plu. QConv. 2.676d, cf. Tim. 26; σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ Artem. 1.77; mostly planted in garden borders (cf. σ. κηπαῖον Dsc. 3.64), hence prov., οὐδʼ ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδʼ ἐν πηγάνῳ ‘’tis scarcely begun yet’, Ar. V. 480.