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Headword:
Opsophagia
Adler number: omicron,1091
Translated headword: relish-eating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and [sc. also attested is] relish-eater: [meaning a] glutton, [someone] consuming relishes.
Philoxenos the son of Leukadios was a relish-eater, and from him the Philoxenian flat-cakes [sc. got their name]. To such a degree was Philoxenos a relish-eater that in public, in the baths, he accustomed his hand to heat by plunging it into hot water and gargled his throat with hot water so that heat made him hard to shift. Also he persuaded the cooks to serve him very hot food. Similar stories are told about
Archytas.[1] And
Crobylus says: "myself, against these excessively hot [foodstuffs] I am holding dactyls veritably Idaean (meaning chilly), and I take pleasure in giving my throat a vapour-bath with [sc. hot] slices of meat".
Greek Original:Opsophagia: kai Opsophagos, laimargos, opsa esthiôn. Philoxenos ho Leukadiou egeneto opsophagos, aph' hou kai hoi Philoxeneioi plakountes. epi tosouton de ên opsophagos ho Philoxenos, hôste phanerôs en tois balaneiois tên cheira sunethizein proskathienta es hudôr thermon kai to stoma anagargarizomenon thermôi hudati, hopôs en tois thermois duskinêtos êi. kai tous opsopoiountas hupepoieito, hina thermotata paratithôsi. paraplêsia de historousi kai peri Archutou. kai Krôbulos phêsin: egô pros ta therma tauth' huperbolêi tous daktulous dêpouthen Idaious echô [anti tou psuchrous], kai ton pharung' hêdista puriô temachiois.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; food; imagery; medicine; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 June 2010@07:54:12.
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