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Headword: Balaneiomphalous
Adler number: beta,64
Translated headword: acorn-bossed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The comic writers call cups [this].[1]
A bath-house [balaneion] was [so-]called because when eating acorns [balanoi] they used to burn the shells.[2] They say that the people reduce the air in the bath, drawing it into themselves.
Also [sc. attested is] balaneitês ["bath-man"], [meaning] he who by most people is called attendant.[3]
"The bath-house is a road to softness."[4]
In the beginning, when there were no bath-houses, the ancients would wash in the tubs and troughs.[5]
Greek Original:
Balaneiomphalous: tas phialas hoi kômikoi kalousi. Balaneion de eklêthê, dioti tas balanous esthiontes ta keluphê ekaion. legousi de hoti hoi polloi elattousi ton aera tôi loutrôi, eis heautous auton helkontes. kai Balaneitês, ho para tois pollois kaloumenos perichutês. esti de to balaneion hodos epi truphên. hoti to katarchas, mê ontôn balaneiôn, en tais skaphais kai puelois hoi archaioi elouonto.
Notes:
[1] Cratinus fr. 50 Kock, now 54 K.-A.; cf. generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.501D-F (11.104 Kaibel).
[2] Burn the shells to heat the baths? cf. kappa 1308.
[3] Outside lexicography this noun is attested only in Polybius 30.29.4.
[4] Artemidorus 1.64; cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 838.
[5] From alpha 4123.
Keywords: chronology; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 March 2003@02:37:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 27 March 2003@05:31:57.
Catharine Roth (modified translation slightly) on 28 March 2003@00:28:53.
David Whitehead (more notes and keywords; tweaking) on 20 May 2012@09:03:36.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 May 2012@00:30:44.
David Whitehead on 3 January 2015@08:53:10.
David Whitehead (expanded a ref) on 14 January 2015@09:08:47.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 29 July 2019@01:00:06.
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