Τροφαλίς

curd, fresh cheese

Translated by David Whitehead20 May 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 16 words

Translation

[Meaning] cheese.1
"[Did not] the dog [...] having snatched a Sicilian curd of cheese devour it?"2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τροφαλίς· τυρός. ἁρπάσας ὁ κύων τροφαλίδα τυροῦ Σικελὴν κατεδήδοκε.

Betacode
*trofali/s: turo/s. a(rpa/sas o( ku/wn trofali/da turou= *sikelh\n katedh/doke. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to the Aristophanes passage about to be quoted. ↩
  2. 2An abridgement of Aristophanes, Wasps 837-8. The dog, here called Labes, is the Athenian general Laches who had campaigned in Sicily (Thucydides 3.86, 90, etc.). ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 29 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. expanded note; another keyword — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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