ἀμέθυστος,ον, (μεθύω)
A. not drunken, without drunkenness,
Plu. 2.464c : Comp. , Gp. 7.34.2 .
II. not intoxicating,perh. so used in Nonn. D. 19.133 : asSubst.,ἀμέθυστον,τό, remedy against drunkenness,
Archig. ap. Gal. 12.572 , Dsc. Eup. 1.24 ; alsoἀμέθυστος,ἡ,
Plu. 2.15b , Ath. 1.34c :—hence, such things as were supposed to act as remedies, viz.,
1. kind ofherb,
Plu. 2.647b ; = σέλινον ἄγριον , Ps.- Dsc. 2.175 .
2. amethyst,
LXX Ex. 28.19 , Apoc. 21.20 , D.P. 1122 , AP 5.204 , 9.748 ( Pl. Jun.):—alsoἀμέθυστον,τό, IG 11(2).287
B 22 (Delos,iii B.C.).
3. ἀμέθυστον,τό, kind ofgrape,Colum. 3.2.24 .