| 词源 |
loosestrife. One credulous author wrote that the Romans put loosestrife flowers under the yokes of oxen to keep the animals from fighting with each other. Many people be- lieved similar myths about loosestrife (Lysimachia) in an- cient times, this belief stemming from the fact that the plant’s name was derived from the Greek lusi, from luein, “to loose,” and mache, “strife.” Actually, loosestrife was named lusimachon by the Greeks from the name of one of Alexander the Great’s generals, Lysimachus, who supposedly discovered it. |