Ἀλφιταμοιβούς
barley-meal-dealers
Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Jun 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes]: "if he shuts his door, [...] the barley-meal-dealers should provide three quarts as dinner to all the poor - or else long regret it."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλφιταμοιβούς· Ἀριστοφάνης· ἢν δ' ἀποκλίνῃ τὴν θύραν, τοὺς ἀλφιταμοιβοὺς τοῖς ἀπόροις τρεῖς χοίνικας δεῖπνον παρέχειν ἅπασιν ἢ κλαίειν μακρά.
Betacode
*)alfitamoibou/s: *)aristofa/nhs: h)\n d' a)pokli/nh| th\n qu/ran, tou\s a)lfitamoibou\s toi=s a)po/rois trei=s xoi/nikas dei=pnon pare/xein a(/pasin h)\ klai/ein makra/.
Notes (1)
- The headword, in the accusative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. For barley-meal cf. alpha 1451, alpha 1452, alpha 1454, alpha 1455, alpha 1456.↩
- 1Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 420 and 424-5, divided between two speakers (web address 1); again at tau 406.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- α1451Ἄλφιbarley-meal[a)/lfi is short for] a)/lfiton. This [sc. cutting-off the end of a word] is called bitten-off, which they say Epicharmus first discovered.
- α1452Ἄλφιταbarley-meal[Meaning] the flour/meal from a new barleycorn. "Much mixed barley-meal was stored away, but many barleycorns [sc. were sent] to be milled; for there was a mill on the spot."
- α1455Ἀλφιτόπωλιςbarley-meal-dealer[Meaning] she who sells barley-meal.
Neighbouring entries
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