abrŏtŏnum

I. a plant of a pleasant, aromatic smell, southernwood; perh. Artemisia abrotonum, Linn.: abrotoni graves, Lucr. 4, 125; so m.: gravem serpentibus urunt abrotonum, Luc. 9, 921: abrotonum aegro non audet dare (as a medicine), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; cf. Plin. 21, 10, 34, §§ 60 and 160; Scrib. Comp. 7 sq., 167.