μυρίκη

myrike

tamarisk

Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.

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Iliad 4
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Book 10 2
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10466
10467
Book 21 2
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2118
21350

Dictionary (LSJ)

μυρίκη [on the quantity v. infr.], ἡ, A. tamarisk (in Greece, Tamarix tetrandra; in Egypt, Tamarix articulata), θῆκεν ἀνὰ μυρίκην [ῐ] Il. 10.466; μυρίκης ἐριθηλέας ὄζους ib.467; δόρυ . . κεκλιμένον μυρίκῃσιν 21.18, cf. h.Merc. 81, Nic. Th. 612; but πτελέαι τε καὶ ἰτέαι ἠδὲ μυρῖκαι Il. 21.350, cf. Theoc. 1.13, 5.101, and Lat. myrīca; ἐκ μυρίκης πεποιημένη θύρη Hdt. 2.96; μυρίκης κλῶνα Alc. 119: pl., PCair.Zen. 383.16 (iii B. C.).

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