Βολβός

bulb, tuber

Translated by David Whitehead9 Aug 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

botany
comedy
food
gender and sexuality

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Aristophanes [writes]: "when you have eaten a bowl of bulbs".¹ In reference to the very lecherous. For bulbs [are] suitable for sexual intercourse.²
It is a kind of pulse, or also onion.³

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Βολβός· Ἀριστοφάνης· καταφαγὼν βολβῶν χύτραν. ἐπὶ τῶν λαγνιστάτων. ἐπιτήδειοι γὰρ εἰς συνουσίαν οἱ βολβοί. ἔστι δὲ εἶδος ὀσπρίου, ἢ καὶ κρομμύου.

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Βολβός · bulb, tuber (β 361) · Suda

*bolbo/s: *)aristofa/nhs: katafagw\n bolbw=n xu/tran. e)pi\ tw=n lagnista/twn. e)pith/deioi ga\r ei)s sunousi/an oi( bolboi/. e)/sti de\ ei)=dos o)spri/ou, h)\ kai\ krommu/ou.

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