| 释义 |
‖ ˈtragion, -ium Herb. Obs.
[L. tragion, Gr. τράγιον, f. τράγος he-goat.]
A name given by the Greeks to some strong-smelling plant or plants; identified by 16th c. herbalists with Dictamnus albus (D. Fraxinella, Lyte 343), and Chenopodium vulvaria (Tragium Germanicum, Lyte 548).
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 62 Tragion saith Diascorides, onely Crete & Cicilie bringeth forth. 1577Grange Gold. Aphrod. F iij, The hearbe Dictamus, or Tragion. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xxi. 343 Of false Dictam... This herbe is called in Greek τράγιον, in Latine Tragium: and is the first kind of Tragium described by Dioscorides. Some herboristes cal it Fraxinella. Ibid. v. iv. 549 We do call it in Greeke τράγιον: in Latine Tragium, that is to say, Goates herbe. And bycause you shall reade in Dioscorides of two other herbes called Tragia, to make some difference betwixt them, we do name this Tragium Germanicum: in Frenche, Blanche putain: in base Almaigne, Bocxcruyt: some call it Vuluaria, by whiche name it is knowen of the Herboristes of this Countrie:..I haue named it in Englishe, The ranke stinking Goate, or stinking Motherwort. 1587Greene Euphues Wks. (Grosart) VI. 188 The herbe Tragion being once byt with an Aspis neuer groweth. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tragium, a shrub..whose Leaves in Autumn stink like a Goat; also the Herb white Dittany. |