Μυστιλᾶται
ladles out
Translated by David Whitehead30 Jul 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] eats up. In a special sense a musti/lh is the name for bread thrown to the dogs. Also [sc. attested is the participle] memustilhme/nas ["scooped-out" ones], meaning [ones] already prepared and ready, that is chewed.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μυστιλᾶται· κατατρώγει. ἰδίως δὲ μυστίλη λέγεται ὁ ἄρτος ὁ τοῖς κυσὶ βαλλόμενος. καὶ Μεμυστιλημένας, ἀντὶ τοῦ κατειργασμένας ἤδη καὶ ἑτοίμους, τουτέστι μεμασημένας.
Betacode
*mustila=tai: katatrw/gei. i)di/ws de\ musti/lh le/getai o( a)/rtos o( toi=s kusi\ ballo/menos. kai\ *memustilhme/nas, a)nti\ tou= kateirgasme/nas h)/dh kai\ e(toi/mous, toute/sti memashme/nas.
Notes
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 827 (where the present primary headword occurs: web address 1) and 1168 (which has the supplementary one).
cf. mu 553, mu 1488.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- μ553Μεμαστιλημένοςbread-scoop, bread-spoon, scooped-out [bread]Manufactured, that is chewed.
- μ582Μεμυστιλημένοιhaving scooped bread to eat soupHaving feasted, having drawn up soup with bread-pieces which are hollow and resemble spoons. Hence also the name [sc. given] to spoons (mustrion), which is something like a piece of bread for scooping soup (mustilion).…
- μ1488Μυστίληνbread-scoop, bread-sop, bread bowl[Meaning a] scrap of bread. A hollow loaf, which they used to make in order to gulp down broth in it.
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