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ἐλλέβορον (elleboron)

ἐλλέβορον is an Ancient Greek form of ἑλλέβορος, meaning “hellebore; hellebore, Veratrum album”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demetrius 20.2: … μενος, ὁπότε σχολάζοι, διῆγεν. Ἄτταλος δὲ ὁ Φιλομήτωρ ἐκήπευε τὰς φαρμακώδεις βοτάνας, οὐ μόνον ὑοσκύαμον καὶ ἐλλέβορον, ἀλλὰ καὶ κώνειον καὶ ἀκόνιτον καὶ δορύκνιον, αὐτὸς ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις σπείρων καὶ φυτεύων, ὀπούς τε καὶ καρπ …

Aristophanes, Wasps 1489b: πῖθʼ ἑλλέβορον.

All forms of ἑλλέβορος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.