noun
mālŏbăthron
Meaning
- an Indian
mālŏbăthron (mālŏbăthrum), i, n., = μαλόβαθρον.
I. Lit., an Indian or Syrian plant, from which a costly oint ment was prepared, perh. betel or base cin namon, Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129; Sid. Carm. 2, 415.—
II. Transf., the oil procured from this plant, malobathrum:
coronatus nitentes Malobathro Syrio capillos, Hor. C. 2, 7, 7; also used in medicine, Cels. 5, 23; Plin. 23, 4, 48, § 93.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
mālobathron (-thrum) ī, n
, μαλόβατηρον, a costly ointment, betel, malobathrum (from an Indian plant): Syrium, H.