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 CHAPTER III, a recognized connection of sound. See Roscher: Sp. 3034, 54.]), Minze. In antiquity the Minze was called "Crown of Aphrodite" (Dioscorides, II, 154). Apuleius called it "mentha venerea"; it was an aphrodisiac. (The opposite meaning is found in Hippocrates: Si quis eam saepe comedat, ejus genitale semen ita colliquescit, ut effluat, et arrigere prohibet et corpus imbecillum reddit, and according to Dioscorides, Minze is a means of preventing conception. (See Aigremont: "Volkserotik und Pflanzenwelt," Vol. I, p. 127). But the ancients also said of Menta: "Menta autem appellata, quod suo odore mentem feriat—mentae ipsius odor animum excitat." This leads us to the root ment—in Latin mens; English, mind—with which the parallel development to pramantha, [Greek: Promêtheu/s], would be completed. Still to be added is that an especially strong chin is called mento (mentum). A special development of the chin is given, as we know, to the priapic]*