Ἀγαθὴ καὶ μάζα μετ' ἄρτον
after bread a barley cake is good too
Translated by William Hutton30 Mar 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
In reference to those who give or take second-best.1
*ma/za [barley cake] has an acute [accent]; for a circumflex does not occur before the position of a long vowel.2 Aristophanes, though, gives ma/za a circumflex: "bring, bring a barley cake for the dung-beetle as quick as you can."3