Προθύματα
preparatory-offerings, preparatory-sacrifices
Translated by Ronald Allen14 Jun 2013Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] rice-wheat.1 [The term comes] from the [habit of] making an offering/sacrifices before [proqu/esqai ] the sacrifices; [sc. rice-wheat] or barley-corns, or frankincense.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προθύματα· αἱ ὄλυραι. παρὰ τὸ προθύεσθαι τῶν ἱερείων, ἢ αἱ κριθαί, ἢ ὁ λιβανωτός.
Betacode
*proqu/mata: ai( o)/lurai. para\ to\ proqu/esqai tw=n i(erei/wn, h)\ ai( kriqai/, h)\ o( libanwto/s.
Notes (1)
- The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative (and vocative and accusative) plural; see generally LSJ s.v.
pro/quma . The entry comes from the scholia vetera to Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 660 (Cario describes his sacrifices: web address 1), where the headword occurs. - 1The gloss is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) plural (where English idiom would have singular, as translated here); see generally LSJ s.v.
o)/lura . Rice-wheat, or olyra, is probably einkorn wheat (or one of several closely related varieties), Triticum monococcum, an ancient domesticated grain that tolerates poor soils; see Zohary, et al., pp. 34-9 and Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.9.2. ↩
References
D. Zohary, M. Hopf, and E. Veiss, Domestication of Plants in the Old World, 4th edn., New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 11 Nov 2021
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- tweak — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified tr; other adjustments — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen