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Melitoutta
Adler number: mu,526
Translated headword: honeycake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A barleycake soaked in honey, which they used to take, apparently, to the snakes producing the oracular responses at Trophonius' [oracle]. It is in
Lebadeia.[1] Honeycake [is] an epithet of well-kneaded cakes.[2] Note that the honeycake used to be provided for corpses, as [if] to be given to Cerberus; and an obol as fee for the ferryman [sc. Charon [
Author,
Myth]], and a crown, as [if] having competed in life's struggle [sc. deserves a prize].[3]
Greek Original:Melitoutta: maza meliti dedeumenê, hên epheron, hôs edokoun, tois ophesi tois es Trophôniou manteuomenois. en Lebadeiai estin. hê melitoutta epitheton tôn nastôn. isteon, hoti hê melitoutta edidoto tois nekrois, hôs eis ton Kerberon: kai obolos misthos tôi porthmei, kai stephanos, hôs ton bion diêgônismenos.
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Keywords: athletics; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; geography; imagery; mythology; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 June 2008@04:43:50.
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