To make the vetches delicate (τακερούς):
and Nicander the Colophonian has used the word σιόνηπυ in his Theriacans, where he said—
A brazen cucumber and mustard too (σίνηπυ);
and in his Georgics he writes—
The biting pungent seed of mustard (σινήπυος);
and again he says—
Cardamum and the plant which stings the nose,
The black-leav'd mustard (σίνηπυ).
And Crates, in his treatise on the Attic Dialect, introduces Aristophanes as saying—
He looked mustard (σίναπυ) and drew down his brows,
as Seleucus quotes it, in his books on Hellenism. But it is a line out of the Knights, and it ought to be read thus—