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Headword:
Aruballos
Adler number: alpha,4057
Translated headword: aryballos, pouch, flask
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The aryballos [is] a braided pouch [sc. and the term comes] from a)ru/ein ["to draw in"] and ba/llein ["to cast out"]; or a vial. It is said to dispense not only liquids, but also solids; as here with ambrosia. "[I saw the goddess] pour out ambrosia from an aryballos on your head, but garlic pickle sauce on his."[1]
Greek Original:Aruballos: plekton ti balantion ho aruballos para to aruein kai ballein: ê marsipion. cheisthai de legetai ou monon ta hugra, alla kai ta sterea: hôsper nun epi tês ambrosias. eita kataspendein kata tês kephalês aruballôi ambrosian, kata toutou de skorodalmên.
Notes:
For this headword see already
alpha 3870 (where it is out of alphabetical order).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 1094-5 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 April 2001@16:03:07.
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