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Headword:
*trofali/s
Adler number: tau,1059
Translated headword: curd, fresh cheese
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] cheese.[1]
"[Did not] the dog [...] having snatched a Sicilian curd of cheese devour it?"[2]
Greek Original:*trofali/s: turo/s. a(rpa/sas o( ku/wn trofali/da turou= *sikelh\n katedh/doke.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to the
Aristophanes passage about to be quoted.
[2] An abridgement of
Aristophanes,
Wasps 837-8. The dog, here called Labes, is the Athenian general Laches who had campaigned in
Sicily (
Thucydides 3.86, 90, etc.).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2011@07:35:11.
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