telephilonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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telephilon (uncountable)

1. A plant used in Ancient Greece in divinatory rituals regarding matters of love or sex.
   • 1872, Emily E. Ford, My Recreations: Verses, New York: Hurd and Houghton, page 150:

     Sophronia sat, lost.
     In deep muse. Round her ebony chair
     Lay the cracked leaves of the telephilon.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 231:

     Theocritus, an ancient Greek poet, says that the leaf of a flower called telephion was used by the boys of Crotona as an amatory oracle. [...] Telephilon has been identified as a kind of pepper tree, or, according to some, as the poppy.