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Headword: *)ene/kaya
Adler number: epsilon,1227
Translated headword: I gulped [them] down
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[I gulped [them] down]; and then in disgust at the smell I spat [them] out."
Greek Original:
*)ene/kaya: ka)=|ta bdeluxqei\s o)sfro/menos e)ce/ptusa.
Note:
Aristophanes, Wasps 791-2: Philokleon describes how he was fooled into putting mullet-scales in his mouth, in the belief they were small coins.
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; food; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 April 2007@01:42:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; augmented not and keywords) on 6 April 2007@03:21:31.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 23 August 2012@09:58:54.
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