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blachnon (blech-), i, n., = βλῆχνον, a kind of fern (filix), Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 78.

blēchnon, v. blachnon.

blēchon, ōnis, m., = βλήχων, wild pennyroyal, Plin. 20, 14, 55, § 156.

Blemmyae or Blĕmyae, ārum (also Blemyes, Avien. Descr. Orb. 329; and Blemyi, ōrum, Prisc. Perieg. 209), m., = Βλέμυες, an Ethiopian people, Mel. 1, 4, 4; 1, 4, 8 fin.; Vop. Aur. 33, 4; Prob. 17; Claud Nil. 19; acc. to the fable, without head and eyes, and with the mouth in the breast, Mel. 8 fin.; Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 46; Isid. Orig. 11, 3, 17; Sol. 3, 4.

blendĭus (in MSS. and edd. also blennĭus, corresponding more nearly to the Greek), ii, m. (blendĕa, ae, f., Plin. 1 Ind. libr. 32, 32), = βλέννος Oppian., βέλεννος Athen., an inferior kind of seafish, Plin. 32, 9, 32, § 102.

blennus, i, m., = βλεννός, a blockhead, dolt, simpleton: stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni, buccones, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 2; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.

Blĕphărōn, ōnis, m., = Βλεφάρων [eye-lids], a comic character in the Amphitruo of Plautus.