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Headword:
Mukêta
Adler number: mu,1395
Translated headword: fungi, moulds
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and [sc. also attested is] mu/khtes, [meaning] certain spongiform excrescences on a lampwick.[1]
Also [meaning] amanite mushrooms.[2]
Also [meaning] the handle of a sword.[3]
In the Epigrams: "may you never, light, bring a snuff or rouse a shadow".[4]
Greek Original:Mukêta: kai Mukêtes, anastêmata tina spongoeidê peri tên thruallida. kai hoi amanitai. kai hê labê tou xiphous. en Epigrammasi: mêpote luchne mukêta pherois mêd' ombron egeirois.
Notes:
Though the primary headword seems to be presented here as neuter plural, it is more probably accusative singular (of
mu/khs, on which see generally LSJ s.v.).
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wasps 262, where
mu/khtes occurs. MacDowell
ad loc writes: "'fungus', 'snuff', produced on the wicks of the lamps by the damp atmosphere".
[2] See LSJ s.v., and cf. under
omicron 541.
[3] More exactly, the knobby end of the scabbard, as in e.g.
Herodotus 3.64.3.
[4]
Greek Anthology 5.263.1 (
Agathias Scholasticus), a woman's night lamp symbolizes her lover's possible failure to rendezvous. Find another quote from this epigram at
theta 433.
Reference:
D.M.MacDowell (ed.), Aristophanes: Wasps (Oxford, OUP: 1971)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2009@05:25:37.
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