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Headword:
*dio\s
e)gke/falos
Adler number: delta,1204
Translated headword: Zeus' brain, Zeus' morsel
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] the finest food-item.[1] So say the Persians in reference to those who live luxuriously; or "king's morsel."
Greek Original:*dio\s e)gke/falos: to\ ka/lliston brw=ma. ou(/tw le/gousin oi( *pe/rsai e)pi\ tw=n h(dupaqou/ntwn: h)\ basile/ws e)gke/falos.
Notes:
More fully in
Zenobius 3.41, and cf. other paroemiographers; Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.1420. See also
beta 145.
One might compare (in the broadest of terms) the soft, pungent cheese dip of Lyon known as
cervelle de canut, "silkworker's brain".
[1]
Pausanias the Atticist fr. 129;
Photius s.v.
[2] cf.
Zenobius 3.141 and other paroemiographers; Tosi [cited under
alpha 378] no.1420.
[3] See
beta 145.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 November 2000@11:53:43.
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