[lit-ideas] The Botanical Philanthrope, or the Wise Humanist Who Loved Plants

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:56:21 EST

OTOH, a philanthropos is a grass that 'sticks to people'.
 
 
 
[< classical Latin <NOBR>phipos (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek  goosegrass, 
cleavers (from its sticking  to people), use as noun of , adjective (see 
PHILANTHROPE n.).
As it is identical in  form to the Latin word, examples of the English word 
cannot always be  distinguished from references to the Latin word in an English 
 context.]   
Either of two plants with seeds or other parts that cling to  clothing, 
goosegrass (cleavers), Galium aparine, and agrimony,  Agrimonia eupatoria.  
OE  tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Hatton)  clxxiv. 218 as wyrt e man 
philantropos [OE Vitell.  fhylantropos, OE Harl. 585 phylantropos, c1150 Harl. 
6258B  
philantropos]   ph, æt ys on ure  yeode menlufigende, for y heo wyle hrædlice 
to am men geclyfian.




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