Λάκτιν
pestle
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝23 Mar 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
What they call a stirrer, a ladle, which is [to say] a soup-ladle. "Well-made pestle".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λάκτιν· τὴν λεγομένην κώταλιν, τορύνην, ὅ ἐστι ζωμήρυσιν. εὐεργέα λάκτιν.
Betacode
*la/ktin: th\n legome/nhn kw/talin, toru/nhn, o(/ e)sti zwmh/rusin. eu)erge/a la/ktin.
Notes (2)
- 1The noun -- quoted from Callimachus: see next note -- and its glosses are all in the accusative singular. Not the usual word for a pestle, which may be
doi=duc (e.g. Aristophanes, Knights 283),tribeu/s (e.g. Aristophanes, Peace 259), ora)litri/banos (Aristophanes, Peace 258, 265 and 270). Fordoi=duc see in particular delta 1560 and fora)litri/banos see alpha 1146. ↩ - 2Callimachus, Hecale fr.286, repeated by Nicander, Theriaca 109. (A modern reader might object that a pestle is not at all like a ladle.) ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 28 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented (existing) notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝