A.“κάνναβιν” Moschio ap.Ath.5.206f, κανναβίδα (sic codd.) Hdt.l.c., Paus.6.26.6:—hemp, Cannabis sativa, S.Fr.243, Hdt.l.c., Dsc.3.148, etc. (but κ. ἀγρία hemp-mallow, Althaea cannabina, ib.149): in pl., -ίδες hemp-seed, Ephipp.13.6; burnt and used to medicate vapour baths, Hdt.4.75:—hence κανναβισθῆναι take a vapour-bath, Hsch. (Cf. OE. hænep 'hemp', Skt. śahás 'a kind of hemp', etc.; borrowed perh. fr. Ugro-Finnish, cf. Čeremissian ke[ndot ]e, ki[ndot ]e 'hemp' and Syrianian pïš 'hemp'.)
κάνναβ-ις , ἡ, gen. ιος Hdt.4.74, εως Sor.2.46, Gal.6.549; acc.
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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