Ἄρτος

loaf

Translated by Jennifer Benedict7 Apr 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 23 words

[Meaning] a morsel.
[Artos] is also the name of a tyrant of the Messapians,¹ and Polemon says the Athenians made him their proxenos.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄρτος· ὁ ψωμός. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα τυράννου Μεσσαπίων, καὶ πρόξενον Ἀθηναίους ποιήσασθαί φησι Πολέμων.