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Headword: *(efqoi\ puroi\
Adler number: epsilon,3936
Translated headword: boiled wheat-grains
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Boiled wheat-grains] are effective aphrodisiacs.[1] And they used to offer wheat-grains to Aphrodite.
Greek Original:
*(efqoi\ puroi\ diegertikoi/ ei)si pro\s sunousi/an. kai\ purou\s th=| *)afrodi/th| e)/quon.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 565: "if (anyone) sacrifices to Aphrodite, let him sacrifice wheat-grains to the coot." (For the textual problem here, which may require "wheat-" to be emended to "barley-", see Dunbar 379.)
cf. generally epsilon 3935.
[1] Again at pi 3234.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
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Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 22 May 2002@15:51:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords) on 23 May 2002@04:27:44.
David Whitehead on 19 November 2012@07:59:12.
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