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Headword:
*ste/mfulon
Adler number: sigma,1034
Translated headword: grape-cake, olive-cake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the skin of the grape[s]; or of the olives; [the parts] which they used as relishes.
Greek Original:*ste/mfulon: to\ e)/kduma th=s stafulh=s: h)\ tw=n e)law=n: oi(=s a)nti\ o)/ywn e)xrw=nto.
Notes:
Likewise in
Photius,
Lexicon sigma524 Theodoridis; similarly already in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon,
Hesychius, the
Synagoge, and a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Knights 806, where the headword occurs in the dative (web address 1).
Whether of grapes or of olives, it seems to mean the residue left after pressing. (This is the substance which, where grapes are concerned, is nowadays likely to be distilled into a clear spirit such as marc or grappa.)
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; food; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 May 2009@01:15:12.
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