βοτάνη [ᾰ], ἡ,
(βόσκω) pasture, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.493, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321b, etc.; ἐκ βοτάνης ἀνιόντα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.87; ἐν β. [prev. author] 28.12; ἔγρονται ἐς βοτάναν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 773.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; β. ἁ λέοντος the lion's pasture, i.e. Nemea, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.42: _metaphorically_, ὥσπερ ἐν κακῇ β. τρεφόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 401c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 fodder, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.411. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 herb, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.13, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1 “Praef.” 1 (_plural_), etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 in plural, plants, as material for making clothes, opposed to δοραί, [[ 4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus Oen. 10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 weeds, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.7.5, “POxy.” 729.22 (2nd c.AD): in _plural_, “Geoponica” 2.46.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__6 ἱερὰ β., ={περιστερεών}, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.60. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]