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Headword: Puramous
Adler number: pi,3192
Translated headword: pyramous, honey-cake
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of cake [made] out of boiled honey and roasted wheat [pyros], like a sesamous [is made] from sesame. These they offered as prizes for those who stayed awake at drinking-parties, and he who had stayed awake until dawn took [sc. this as] a prize.[1] "Ours [is] the honey-cake".[2]
Greek Original:
Puramous: eidos plakountos ek melitos hephthou kai purou pephrugmenou, hôs sêsamous ho dia sêsamês. tauta de etithesan athla tois diagrupnêtais en tois sumposiois, kai ho diagrupnêsas mechri tês eô tauta elambanen epathlon. hêmeteros ho puramous.
Notes:
cf. tau 439 and tau 518.
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 277, where the word appears: see next note. For the sesamous, see sigma 341.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 277 (web address 1, cf. tau 518 and notes 6 and 7), and again Thesmophoriazousai 94.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2001@06:35:46.
Vetted by:
Robert Dyer (Added cross reference, minor cosmetics. Raised status) on 17 May 2002@18:24:54.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; cosmetics) on 18 March 2010@10:15:04.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 19 March 2010@11:56:27.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 11 January 2014@01:07:38.
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