82 Aster History 
tion?) Manardus seems to have made both the same as Aster, 
1523. Astrion may have been applied to Coronopus from the 
radiately spreading tufts of leaves ; or may have been a partial as- 
similation of its Carthaginian name avirsipte, q. v. (i. e., atir, atar, 
astir, = herba ; assimilated with aster and then used in diminutive). 
Punic Prant Names AssIMILATED TO ASTER 
A number of Dioscoridean synonyms are from Africa, listed as 
names used among the “dgpor or people of the Roman province 
of Africa, of which Carthage was the chief city. Many of these 
names begin, in their Greek form, with doco or dz, astir or 
atir,—equivalent, fide Bochart, to Aerda, and not from Gr. aster, 
but Ar. atar, Aerda. Bochart, Huguenot orientalist, 1 599-1667, 
made a study of these names, as quoted by Sprengel (Dioscorides, 
25, 532; 26, 466, 559, 589, etc.). Bochart and Sprengel, calling 
them Punic names, assumed them, because in use at Carthage, to 
have originated in the Punic speech of the Carthaginians. Com- 
parison with Hebrew roots resulted in the ensuing meanings. 
ASTER CHILLOS, or Aster choiloth ; derip yedldc, dari zorkob 
of MSS. of D., 4, 36; =herba Achillis, Bochart fide Sprengel, 
Dioscorides, 26: 589; name for Achillea, including Achillea 
Millefolium L., called also in Greek yheoovidov, the thousand-leaf 
plant ; as if the original ascription to Achilles’ discovery was an 
afterthought due to the name ythtov already in use, from its much- : 
divided leaves. 
ASTERENK, a Persian name for Mandragora; also from astir? — 
ASTERTIPHE, dotypt+¢7,, =herba pomi, propter mali odorem, 
Bochart ; name for Anthemis, D., 3, 144, including the chamomile, 
claimed to mean ground-apple and to be so named from the odor ; 
and for chamomile Apuleius cites Ovalidium as Gallic, interpreted 
by Bochart as from Gallic oval, Ger. apfel, = apple. Cf. p. 133- 
ASTIRCOC, datepx0x, D., 4, 94 = herba efficax, Sprengel’s Diosc., 
25: 593; name for Potamogeton sosteraefolius Schmach. Jide 
Sprengel ; D. remarks that “the Afri” or Carthaginians also call 
it Potamogeton alter, and the Dacians x0n0d p10. 
ASTRESMUNIM, aatpsapouviw, D.. 4,71; = herba Esmuni, @. > 
herba Aesculapii, Sprengel, Diosc., 25: 565; name for Strychnon 
hortensis, fide Sprengel, the Strychnon of D. 
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