Names For AstTER ATTICUS 77 
as in the Cretan form of Greek which retains it only in the form * 
glappoc, sorcery, the evil eye, the facxaxa [= fascination] of 
other parts of Greece. 
But to the ancient Greek, to compare a flower to an eye was 
a most natural impulse. Dioscorides says of his chrysanthemum, 
its flower-head is d¢0aipozda@s xuxhotep7 ; 2. ¢., “ oculi effigie or- 
biculatus”’ ; and his name ovgHadpov he pauses to explain as be- 
cause the flower is 6¢@aipozd7. Ancient plant names formed to 
compare the flower to an eye were often fanciful ; as 
dbaipoc zb0wvos, name among the “ Prophets” in Egypt for 
Stoechas, D., 3, 28. 
6ghahpos togwvos, Apuleius, Pl., 42. 
Bovebaipor, Galen, Bovrgbadpov, D., ox-eye, also called ov 
bupa in the Anthology, Cwo¢@aipov, D., 4, 89. The same plant 
was known in Persian as Khaudschaschm, 7. ¢., oculus bovis, says 
Avicenna, fide Sprengel, Diosc., 26, 561. In Italian it had be- 
come Occhio di Bue, and in Greek Buftalmo, Marthioli, 1568. 
Boiebaipoy and Cwdgbaipov were also used, D., 4, 88, as 
names of houseleek. 
POTAMOGETON, zotapoyeitwy, D., = river-dweller ; a name for 
Aster Tripolium L., D. 
Psycue, (077 ; = the breath, the life, the soul; a name for 
Aster Tripolium L., D., applied in consequence of the reputation 
of its flowers as transitory, changing color three times in one day 
and then perishing ; see D., 4, 133; and Lobel, De 7ripolio. 
PurpLE Maricoip, Parkinson, 1629 and 1640, forms this as 
an English name for his Aster Atticus due to use of name “‘ corn 
marigold” for its relative Chrysanthemum segetum L.? 
Purpte Viotet, for Aster Amellus L., see Viola. 
RatHIbipA, pallida, D., interpolation ? Rathibia, Bock, 1536. 
Rathibis barbarum est, “it is known among the barbarians as 
Rathibis,” John Lonitzer, 1543 ; otherwise it retains the form of D., 
Dacian name for Aster Amellus L.; i. ¢., in the old Thracian 
tongue of the natives of Dacia? See fra, under Dioscorides. 
* So Strangford in his Vocabulary of Cretan Greek, in Spratt’s Travels in Crete, 
1865; citing such equivalents as Cretan épwrac for Mod. Gr. dixrapos, dittany ; and 
Cretan oxoAwvéc, a pig, for Mod. Gr. Kotpog ; adding that ‘‘ dictionaries have hitherto 
made it a point of honor to suppress or ignore the so-called ‘ vulgar’ Greek.”’ 
