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Headword: *ge/lgiqes
Adler number: gamma,110
Translated headword: garlic-cloves
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] heads of garlic.[1]
"And fresh garlic-cloves and pears, ample desserts for wine drinkers."[2]

Greek Original:

*ge/lgiqes: skoro/dwn kefalai/. kai\ po/timoi ge/lgiqes h)de/ te o)/gxnai, dayilh= oi)nopo/tais gastro\s e)peiso/dia.

Notes:

[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.232.5-6 (Crinagoras); cf. epsilon 2143. On this epigram, a dedication of foods to Pan and Priapus, see Gow and Page vol. I (224-225); vol. II (252-254); and further excerpts at alpha 1665, omicroniota 126, pi 2050, and sigma 1207.

References:

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)

Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2000@12:18:56.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 16 August 2001@04:56:13.
David Whitehead (another note) on 5 June 2012@05:00:41.
David Whitehead on 5 June 2012@05:01:00.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 27 August 2012@22:16:56.
David Whitehead on 27 September 2015@08:20:43.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 17 September 2022@13:58:13.

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