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Headword: Teuthides
Adler number: tau,424
Translated headword: squids, calamari
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] cuttle-fish.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the singular] teuqi/s, [meaning] a small cheap fish.[2]
And Aristophanes says about Antimachus: "in a simple word, may Zeus destroy badly Antimachus the son of Psekas, who dismissed my wretched self without dinner. May I yet see him wanting a squid, which hissing on the spit by the sea runs aground lying on a table; and then as he is about to take it, may a dog snatch it and eat it. This [is] one bad thing for him."[3]
Greek Original:
Teuthides: sêpiai. kai Teuthis, ichthudion euteles. kai phêsin Aristophanês peri Antimachou: Antimachon ton Psekados, hôs men haplôi logôi, kakôs apoleseien ho Zeus: hos g' eme ton tlêmona adeipnon apelusen: hon et' idoimi teuthidos deomenon: hê d' ôptêmenê sizousa paralos epi trapezês keimenê okellei: kaita mellontos labein autou, kuôn harpasas phagoi. touto men autôi kakon hen.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the Synagoge (tau131) and Photius' Lexicon (tau214 Theodoridis); similarly already in Hesychius (tau684).
[2] cf. Hesychius tau685.
[3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1150-64; cf. sigma 387, psi 39.
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; food; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 March 2014@01:24:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 11 March 2014@04:05:07.
David Whitehead on 11 March 2014@04:05:27.
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