I.a plant, privet: “alba ligustra cadunt,” Verg. E. 2, 18: “candidior folio nivei, Galatea, ligustri,” Ov. M. 13, 789: “loto candidior puella cygno, argento, nive, lilio, ligustro,” Mart. 1, 116, 3.—
II. A plant, otherwise unknown, which, acc. to Pliny, was held by some to be the cyprus, Plin. 12, 24, 55, § 109; 24, 10, 45, § 74; 16, 18, 31, § 77.—To this perhaps may be referred ligustrum nigrum, Col. 10, 300.
