Ἀβυρτάκη
sour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace
Translated by Elizabeth Vandiver21 Nov 1998Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
A sharp-flavored barbarian dish, prepared from leeks and cress[-seeds] and pomegranate kernels and other such things, quite clearly pungent. Theopompus in Theseus [writes]: "he will reach the land of the Medes, where aburtake is made mostly of cress and leeks."1 The noun also appears in the Kekruphalos of Menander.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀβυρτάκη· ὑπότριμμα βαρβαρικὸν, κατασκευαζόμενον διὰ πράσων καὶ καρδάμων καὶ ῥόας κόκκων καὶ ἑτέρων τοιούτων, δριμὺ δηλονότι. Θεόπομπος Θησεῖ· ἥξει δὲ Μήδων γαῖαν, ἔνθα καρδάμων πλείστων ποιεῖται καὶ πράσων ἀβυρτάκη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Κεκρυφάλῳ Μενάνδρου τοὔνομα.