α110Ἀγαθὴ καὶ μάζα μετ' ἄρτον
after bread a barley cake is good too
In reference to those who give or take second-best. *ma/za [barley cake] has an acute [accent]; for a circumflex does not occur before the position of a long vowel. Aristophanes, though, gives ma/za a circumflex:…
Ἀγαθὴ καὶ μάζα μετ' ἄρτον· ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ δευτερεῖα διδόντων ἢ αἱρουμένων. μάζα ὀξεῖαν ἔχει· ἐπάνω γὰρ θέσει μακρᾶς περισπωμένη οὐ τίθεται· ὁ δὲ Ἀριστοφάνης περισπᾶ τὴν μάζαν· αἶρ'…