centaurēum or -ĭon, i, n. (access. form centaurĭa, ae, f., App. Herb. 34 and 35), = κενταύρειον and κενταύριον,
centaury , a plant of two kinds : majus, Centaurea centaurium, Linn.; and minus, Gentiana centaurium, id.; Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66: ferum, Lucr. 2, 401: tristia, id. 4, 124: Thessala, Luc. 9, 918; Verg. G. 4, 270.
centaurēum ī, n, κενταύρειονCentaurus; because used by Chiron to heal the foot of Hercules, the ce...
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