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Origin of mandragora
before 1000; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin, Latin mandragorās < Greek mandragórās
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Not poppy nor mandragora / Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, / Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep / Which thou owedst yesterday.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2014
The lines, "Not poppy nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday," hypnotize with their own heavy-lidded evocation of sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
In coming to terms with Bear Bryant, Not poppy nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep .
From Time Magazine Archive
I clung to the willow branch but the mandragora that now filled my veins had stolen my strength.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
“The mandragora brought a sleep so deep, even I doubted you were alive,” she said.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
It is no doubt, to these mandragoras that an old chronicler alludes in the following strophe: 71 J'ai puis vu soudre en France Par grant dérision, La racine et la branche De toute abusion.
From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by Davenport, John
Gerarde further holds it to be the identical mandragoras of the Greeks, and called Circaea because it was used by Circe for love-potions and enchantments.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
The learned author of Pseudosia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors, at any rate, was clearly of opinion that moly and mandragoras were one and the same.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
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