μ291Μάττοντας
kneading
[Meaning them who are] eating a lot. [The verb comes] from barley-meal being kneaded. Aristophanes [writes]: "and Herakles-es kneading". These things are hinting at Euripides, who created a hungry Herakles and a…
Μάττοντας· ἐσθίοντας πολλά. ἀπὸ τῆς ματτομένης μάζης. Ἀριστοφάνης· τούς θ' Ἡρακλέας μάττοντας. αἰνίττεται δὲ ταῦτα εἰς Εὐριπίδην, ὃς ἐποίησεν Ἡρακλέα πεινῶντα καὶ Διόνυσον δειλὸν…
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