Ἀμόργη
lees
Translated by Oliver Phillips â6 Apr 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the sediment.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀμόργη· ἡ τρυγία.
Betacode
*)amo/rgh: h( trugi/a.
Notes
- Defined by LSJ s.v. as "the watery part which runs out when olives are pressed" (web address 1); in fact the lees from pressing either grapes or olives. Latin amurca. Possibly connected, etymologically, with the Aegean island of Amorgos, for which cf. alpha 1623, alpha 1625, alpha 1626, alpha 1627.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- α1623ἈμόργειαAmorgian[Meaning a] kind of color, [named] from the island of Amorgos, as Therian [is] from the island of Thera.
- α1625Ἀμόργινονamorginos, Amorgian, mallow-fibered fabric[Meaning something] like linen and expensive. Also found is amorgina in the feminine.
- α1626Ἀμοργίςmallow-stalkProperly [this means] fine flax, from which is made garments called amorginian. Or the sediment of the olive and the lees of the wine. The mallow-stalk is like unscutched flax. They peel it and work it. It is very fine…
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