Ἀμφιφῶντες
double-lights
Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 Aug 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A type of flat-cake1 which used to be made when the sun and moon appear early over the earth; alternatively [so called] because they used to carry it with little lit torches bound all around it, as Apollodorus says.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀμφιφῶντες· πλακοῦντος εἶδος, οἵτινες ἐγίνοντο, ὅτε ὁ ἥλιος καὶ ἡ σελήνη πρωῒ ὑπὲρ γῆς φαίνονται· ἢ ὅτι ἐκόμιζον αὐτὸν δᾳδία ἡμμένα περιπηγνύντες ἐπ' αὐτῷ, ὥς φησιν Ἀπολλόδωρος.