| 释义 |
† ˈhebenon, hebon, hebona
Names given by Shakespeare and Marlowe to some substance having a poisonous juice.
Commentators have variously identified the word with ebon, henbane, and Ger. eibe, eibenbaum the yew. Gower has hebenus app. in a similar sense.
[1390Gower Conf. II. 103 Of hebenus that slepy tre.] c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta iii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 164/1 In few, the blood of Hydra, Lerna's bane, The juice of hebon, and Cocytus' breath. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 62 Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle stole With iuyce of cursed Hebenon [Qos. hebona] in a Violl. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. Loves Pl. 111, Brews her black Hebenon, and stealing near, Pours the curst venom in his tortured ear. |