[881] menta (mentha), ae, f. (μίνθη), die Minze, Krauseminze, gew. neben ruta, Varro LL. 5, 103. Cic. ep. 9, 22, 3. Cels. 2, 31. Colum. poët. 10, 119. Plin. 19, 159. Scrib. Larg. 2 u. 197 (mentha). Mart. 10, 48, 10 (Schn. mentha). Vulg. Luc. 11, 42. Arnob. 7, 16: mentha et anethum, Vulg. Matth. 23, 23. Hieron. epist. 69, 4: Plur., Ov. met. 8, 663; 10, 729.