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Headword:
*surmai/+zein
Adler number: sigma,1666
Translated headword: to take an emetic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to purge with a potion [made] out of zeia-grains and water.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] surmai/h ["purge-plant"] in the same [author], [meaning] a vegetable similar to celery.[2]
Greek Original:*surmai/+zein: kaqai/rein po/mati e)k zeiw=n kai\ u(/datos. kai\ *surmai/h para\ tw=| au)tw=|, la/xanon seli/nw| e)oiko/s.
Notes:
[1] From a gloss on
Herodotus 2.77.2, about the Egyptians' monthly dietary customs (web address 1). Compare generally
Hesychius sigma2782; Erotian 54.10-12. For
zeia see
zeta 43.
[2] Ionic for
surmai/a (
sigma 1667). From a gloss on
Herodotus 2.125.6, about food for Egyptian pyramid-builders (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; geography; historiography; medicine; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 June 2014@01:06:07.
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