Alum, nos vocamus, Græcis Symphiton petreum. Ruellius dicit apud Gallos vulgò nominari Buglum. In english Comferie or Camfrey.
Halo, halas, halâte. Virg.To caste out a sent or sauour.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ălōnē (Hal-), es, f.I.An island between Teos and Lebedus, Plin. 2, 87, 89, 202. —II.An island in the Propontis, Plin. 5, 32, 44, 151.—III.A colony of Massilia in Hisp. Tarrac., Mel. 2, 6, 6.—IV.A town in Britannia, Itin. Ant.
hālo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to breathe (poet.; cf.: feo, spiro). I.Neutr., to breathe, to emit vapor or fragrance, be fragrant: invitent croceis halantes floribus horti, Verg. G. 4, 109: ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant, id. A. 1, 417.—II.Act., to breathe out, exhale: et nardi florem, nectar qui naribus halat, Lucr. 2, 848; 6, 221; 391; Mart. 10, 48.