Minthe
[6] The -nth-/-nthos- element in menthe has been described as a characteristic of a class of words borrowed from a Pre-Greek language: compare akanthos, Zakynthos, labyrinthos, Korinthos, and hyakinthos.[9][10] In jealousy, his wife Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmos (lit.[18][19] According to Julius Pollux's Onomasticon, Minthe was mentioned by the poet Cratinus, an Athenian playwright of the Old Comedy, in his lost play Nomoi ("Laws").[21][22] In ancient Greek culture, a pallake referred to a man's unmarried consort; she was of lower status than a legally married wife, but stood higher than a common prostitute or a hetaira.[26] It also was regarded as a powerful aphrodisiac, hence Minthe's role in becoming the lover of Hades; at the same time it was used as a contraceptive method,[28] as it was believed that consuming it before the act would prevent a pregnancy.
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