Κερασβόλα
horn-struck, hard-shelled
Translated by Nick Nicholas7 Nov 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Tough [seeds], growing together both amongst tough [plants] and amongst pulses;1 black in colour, round, and of the same size as millet grains; they do not soften when boiled together with pulses. They are so called because sowing and the plough2 strike and hit against ox horns. So when [sc. Plato] says "horn-struck",3 he means the uneducated and tough[-minded] and law-breakers.