Ἀθάρα

[Meaning] boiled barley-meal. It is inflected in Attic [writers] with the eta, a)qa/rhs, but the koine [does so] with the alpha, a)qa/ras. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "but I was struck with desire for a pot of gruel lying a little way from the head of a hag".¹
a)qa/rhs, not a)qarh/s,² is what they called pounded [barley]. Crates in Heroes [writes]: "therefore it is necessary to bring here a bowl of pea-soup and of gruel".³