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Headword:
*dhmo/s
Adler number: delta,453
Translated headword: fat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lard.[1]
"A fig-leaf baked thoroughly with ox fat". A dish made with brains [wrapped] in fig-leaves, that is, in the leaves of the fig-tree.[2]
Greek Original:*dhmo/s: to\ li/pos. dhmou= boei/ou qri=on e)cwpthme/non. skeu/asma/ ti meta\ e)gkefa/lou gino/menon e)n toi=s qri/ois, toute/sti toi=s fu/llois th=s sukh=s.
Notes:
Repeated
theta 502.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and several
scholia), and cf.
delta 473.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 954, with comment from the
scholia there. Here as also in
Wasps 40 there is a pun on
demos = fat and (
delta 452)
demos = the Athenian people. For the dish in question here see also
Frogs 134.
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 29 June 2003@18:05:25.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; cosmetics) on 30 June 2003@03:15:46.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 26 June 2012@06:33:25.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; cosmetics) on 18 October 2015@04:46:30.
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