Ἐκκοκκίσας
de-seeding, removing the seeds
Translated by Matthew Farmer13 Dec 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] making desolate. From a metaphor of pomegranates, which are expelling their seeds; for just as the cities are the shelters of men, so also are the pomegranates of their seeds. The rustic [Trygaeus] used this metaphor. Aristophanes [writes]: "o Zeus, do you not see that you are de-seeding your own cities?"1