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δάφνη , ἡ,
A.sweet bay, Laurus nobilis, Od.9.183, Hes.Th.30, prob. in Men. Georg.36; τὸ τῆς δ. (sc. τρύπανον）“ ἄριστον” Thphr.HP5.9.7; “δάφναν μὴ δρέπε” Supp.Epigr.2.185 (Boeot., v B.C.); [“Ἀπόλλων] χρείων ἐκ δάφνης γυάλων ὕπο Παρνησοῖο” h.Ap.396; “ἐξ ὧν εἶπέ μοι ὁ Φοῖβος . . Πυθικὴν σείσας δάφνην” Ar.Pl.213; “ἐρέω τι τορώτερον ἢ ἀπὸ δάφνης” Call.Del.94; “στεφανῶσαι δάφνης στεφάνῳ” GDI2507 (Delph.), cf. Epigr.Gr.786 (Halic.), CIG3641 b 20 (add., Lampsacus).
II. δ. Ἀλεξανδρεία, Ruscus Hypoglossum, Thphr.HP1.10.8,3.17.4, Dsc. 4.145.
2. = χαμαιδάφνη, Ps._Dsc.4.147.
III. white mangrove, Avicennia officinalis, Thphr.HP4.7.2.
IV. a kind of coral, ibid. (α^ Theoc.11.45.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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