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Headword:
*)aru/ballos
Adler number: alpha,4057
Translated headword: aryballos, pouch, flask
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The aryballos [is] a braided pouch [sc. and the term comes] from a)ru/ein ["to draw in"] and ba/llein ["to cast out"]; or a vial. It is said to dispense not only liquids, but also solids; as here with ambrosia. "[I saw the goddess] pour out ambrosia from an aryballos on your head, but garlic pickle sauce on his."[1]
Greek Original:*)aru/ballos: plekto/n ti bala/ntion o( a)ru/ballos para\ to\ a)ru/ein kai\ ba/llein: h)\ marsi/pion. xei=sqai de\ le/getai ou) mo/non ta\ u(gra\, a)lla\ kai\ ta\ sterea/: w(/sper nu=n e)pi\ th=s a)mbrosi/as. ei)=ta kataspe/ndein kata\ th=s kefalh=s a)ruba/llw| a)mbrosi/an, kata\ tou/tou de\ skoroda/lmhn.
Notes:
For this headword see already
alpha 3870 (where it is out of alphabetical order).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 1094-5 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 April 2001@16:03:07.
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