β64Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
The comic writers call cups [this]. A bath-house [balaneion] was [so-]called because when eating acorns [balanoi] they used to burn the shells. They say that the people reduce the air in the bath, drawing it into…
Βαλανειομφάλους· τὰς φιάλας οἱ κωμικοὶ καλοῦσι. Βαλανεῖον δὲ ἐκλήθη, διότι τὰς βαλάνους ἐσθίοντες τὰ κελύφη ἔκαιον. λέγουσι δὲ ὅτι οἱ πολλοὶ ἐλαττοῦσι τὸν ἀέρα τῷ λουτρῷ, εἰς…