Note 325:1 — WORMWOOD.
Reading edition
Wormwood had a still higher reputation among the ancients, as the following extract shows:
Ἀρτεμισία μονόκλωνος.
Αὐει γὰρ κόπον ἀυδρὸς ὁδοιπόρου, ὅς κ᾽ ένι χέρσιν την μονόκλωνον ἔχη· περὶ δ᾿ ἀυ ποσὶν ἕρπετα πάντα φεύγει, ἤν τις ἔχη ἐν ὁδῶ, κὰι φάσματα δεινά.
Anonymi Carmen de Herbis, in "Poetæ Bucolici."