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Headword:
*ma/geiros
Adler number: mu,10
Translated headword: cook
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Cook] and cook-shop [mageirei=on]. [sc. A cook is] one who distributes barley-cakes [ma/zas].[1]
Greek Original:*ma/geiros kai\ *mageirei=on. o( ta\s ma/zas meri/zwn.
Notes:
LSJ notes that the headword can mean 'acting as waiter' (see Matron,
Convivium 1.46, also 1.91), but usually it has the sense of cook, or butcher, or slaughterer (these functions being frequently combined in one person: see LSJ s.v., and especially
Plato,
Euthyphro 301D).
The word
magirus is also attested in late Latin: see Lewis & Short s.v.
[1] Again at
mu 14. For barley-cakes, see
mu 34.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 September 2004@13:27:43.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (original translation and notes contributed by Andres Rodriguez Cumplido) on 7 September 2004@13:33:16.
Catharine Roth (augmented note, using ARC's contribution) on 7 September 2004@13:38:07.
David Whitehead (x-refs; cosmetics) on 8 September 2004@04:01:51.
David Whitehead on 24 April 2013@08:43:52.
Catharine Roth (tweak, cross-reference) on 27 June 2020@16:42:59.
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