Citations:œsypum

Noun:

 * 1855, John Bostock and H. T. Riley, The Natural History of Pliny; Volume III, Book XII, Chapter 37, page #133:
 * They say also that this Cyprian ladanum is collected in the same manner as the other, and that it forms a kind of greasy substance or œsypum,25 which adheres to the beards and shaggy legs of the goats  ; but that it is produced from the flowers of the ground‐ivy, which they have nibbled when in quest of their morning food, a time as which the whole island is covered with dew.
 * 1887, edited by Frank P. Foster, The New York Medical Journal, D. Appleton and Company; Volume XLVI, page #718:
 * Pliny inform us that œsypum (“ the filth and sweat adherent to wool ”) furnished an extract which was used as a medicine, and Ovid says that it was employed by the Roman ladies to improve their complexion.
 * 1894, K. Hebbeler in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; page #748:
 * Sir,–In the case Darmstädter v. Richardson it was contended that although œsypum had been known for centuries there was no evidence of its ever having been used medicinally.