Λέκιθος

A kind of seed, which is [sc. also] called pease, because of its resemblance in colour to an egg's yolk.¹ So from a part he is indicating the female seed-seller. And [sc. the word also occurs] in Lysistrata: "by Zeus, I myself saw a long-haired man, a phylarch on a horse, putting into a bronze cap pease-pudding [sc. that he had bought] from an old woman."²