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Headword:
*)akh/mata
Adler number: alpha,866
Translated headword: cures
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] remedies.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "curing of pains", [meaning] the baths;[2] and they relax fatigue in the sea, which is especially good for the nerves, but slackening the crampings of the muscles [in bath-tubs]; then smearing on oil, so that their bodies would not become stiff once the water had dried.
Greek Original:*)akh/mata: i)a/mata. kai\ *)/akh po/nwn, ta\ loutra/: kai\ ko/pon me\n qala/tth| lu/ousin, h(\ ma/lista toi=s neu/rois e)sti\ pro/sforos, a)naxalw=ntes de\ ta\s tw=n muw=n susta/seis, ei)=t' e)palei/fontes li/pa pro\s tw=| mh\ r(anqe/ntos tou= u(/datos a)pesklhrume/na gi/nesqai ta\ sw/mata.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing of this neuter plural in
Photius and other lexica, and also in the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 15.394, where either it or the variant
akesmata occurs; cf. already
alpha 848.
[2] This and what follows comes from
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophistai 1.24C-D (1.44 Kaibel), discussing bathing in
Homer.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@23:10:49.
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