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Headword:
*meli/nh
Adler number: mu,506
Translated headword: meline, millet
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of pulse.[1]
"There was also bread [made] from millet, for this was abundant in the country."[2] And elsewhere: "they were fearlessly carrying off wine, pulses, millets, figs. For the country had all good things except olive oil."[3]
Greek Original:*meli/nh: ei)=dos o)spri/ou. h)=n de\ kai\ si=tos a)po\ meli/nhs, tou=to ga\r h)=n e)n th=| xw/ra| plei=ston. kai\ au)=qis: e)fe/ronto a)dew=s oi)=non, o)/spria, meli/nas, su=ka. pa/nta ga\r a)gaqa\ ei)=xen h( xw/ra plh\n e)lai/ou.
Notes:
See also
mu 507.
[1] Likewise in other lexica (seen the references at
Photius mu235 Theodoridis), and cf. also a scholion on
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.5.10 (ed. Dindorf).
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.5.10; near the city of Charmande, on the Euphrates (web address 1).
[3]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 6.6.1 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; food; geography; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 May 2009@01:04:57.
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