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- α103Ἀβυρτάκηsour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace… Kings (allegedly seen in Babylon by Alexander the Great) in Polyaenus 4.3.32 there is a mention of salted capers "from which they make abyrtakai". [2] Menander fr. 280 Kock, 247 Koerte, now 217 Kassel-Austin. …
- ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… Bebrycians, near Lampsacus, see Plutarch, Moralia 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between the geographical location of his kingdom …