σέλινον

A. celery, Apium graveolens, Il. 2.776, Od. 5.72, Batr. 54, Ar. Nu. 982, Eub. 36 (pl.), Thphr. HP 1.2.2, CP 6.11.10, Nic. Th. 649; σελίνου σπέρμα Hdt. 4.71; it had curly leaves, v. οὖλος (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., Thphr. HP 9.11.10; σελίνων στεφανίσκοι Anacr. 54, cf. Theoc. 3.23, AP 4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, Pi. O. 13.33; Κορίνθια ς. Id. N. 4.88, cf. I. 2.16, Com.Adesp. 153, D.S. 16.79; such chaplets were also hung on tombs, τὸ ς. πένθεσι προσήκει Duris 33 J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said δεῖσθαι τοῦ ς., Plu. 2.676d, cf. Tim. 26; σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ Artem. 1.77; mostly planted in garden borders (cf. ς. κηπαῖον Dsc. 3.64), hence prov., οὐδ’ ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδ’ ἐν πηγάνῳ ''tis scarcely begun yet', Ar. V. 480.

2. ς. ἄγριον,= βατράχιον, Dsc. 2.175;= σμύρνιον, Ps.-Dsc. 3.67;= ἐλεοσέλινον, ib.64.

II. pudenda muliebria, Phot., cf. Sch.Theoc. 11.10. [ι only in AP 7.621.]