Ἀμφίας

amphias

Translated by Jennifer Benedict14 Aug 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 10 words

A mediocre wine.¹ Nicostratus in Winemaker and Sosicrates [mention it].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀμφίας· μέτριος οἶνος. Νικόστρατος Οἰνοποιῷ καὶ Σωσικράτης.

Betacode

*)amfi/as: me/trios oi)=nos. *niko/stratos *oi)nopoiw=| kai\ *swsikra/ths.

1(From Sicily.) The adjective metrios might have been open to a more favourable interpretation here -- middling, tolerable -- but cf. Athenaeus (next note) on Amphias as a 'poor' wine. ↩
1Nicostratus fr. 18 Kock, now 17 K.-A.; Sosicrates fr. 7 Kock, now 4 K.-A. (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31E = 1.57 Kaibel). ↩

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