ἱππομανής
hippomanes
abounding in, swarming with horses
Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἱππομανής, ές, A. abounding in, swarming with horses (cf. καρπο-, ὑλο-, φυλλο-μανής) , λειμών Aj. 143 (anap.); variously expld. by Sch. II. as Subst., ἱππομανές, έος, τό, an Arcadian plant, thorn-apple, Datura stramonium, of which horses are madly fond, or which makes them mad, 2.48; f.l. for -φαές in HP 9.15.6. b. = κάππαρις, 2.173; = ἀπόκυνον, Ps.- 4.80. 2. small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal, which, if procured before it was eaten off by the dam, was held to be a powerful φίλτρον, HA 577a9, 605a2, Fr. 175, NA 3.17, 14.18. 3. mucous humour that runs from mares a-horsing, used for like purposes, HA 572a21, 5.27.3.
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