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[sc. So called by] being something withered [iskhnas]; since, before meat-eating had been given to the Athenians, they used the dried fig [sc. for food]. Or since it goes this far: for first the olunthos [winter-fig], then the phelex, then the suka [fig], then the iskhas [dried fig], which makes the growth hold [i)/sxein].[1]
They used to call all sweet fruits iskhades. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "stand up to grab some of the dried figs."[2]
"Whose rich cheese you will pluck and dry fig."[3]
And Aristophanes [writes]: "he gaped as if hindering dried figs." Just as, he is saying, those who eat dried figs eat them without hindrance and boisterously, in the same manner the demos, when they sit on the Pnyx, condemn and confiscate.[4]

*)isxa/s: i)sxna/s tis ou)=sa: e)peidh/, pri\n h)\ doqh=nai th\n krewfagi/an toi=s *)aqhnai/ois, e)xrw=nto th=| i)sxa/di. h)\ e)peidh\ me/xri tou/tou probai/nei: prw=ton ga\r o)/lunqos, ei)=ta fi/lhc, ei)=ta su=ka, ei)=ta i)sxa/s, i)/sxein poiou=sa th\n au)/chsin. pa/nta de\ ta\ tragh/mata i)sxa/das e)ka/loun. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a)ni/staq' w(s a(rpaso/menos tw=n i)sxa/dwn. ou(= kai\ pi/ona turo\n dre/yesqe kai\ au)/hn i)sxa/da. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: ke/xhnen w(/sper e)mpodi/zwn i)sxa/das. w(/sper, fhsi/n, oi( ta\s i)sxa/das e)sqi/ontes a)nempodi/stws kai\ la/brws au)ta\s e)sqi/ousi, to\n au)to\n tro/pon kai\ o( dh=mos, e)peida\n e)n th=| *pnuki\ kaqesqh=|, katakri/nei kai\ dhmeu/ei.

[1] Similar glosses in other lexica. For the various kinds of fig and the process of caprification, see omicron 223, sigma 1328, phi 263, phi 264, psi 71, alpha 2308, epsilon 2993.
[2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 798, with scholion.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.303.3-4 (Ariston), the poet addresses the mice inside his home; cf. alpha 3303, sigma 1700. On this epigram--an imitation of Greek Anthology 6.302 (Leonidas of Tarentum; cf. alpha 3965)--also see Gow and Page (vol. I, 43) and (vol. II, 112).
[4] Aristophanes, Knights 755 with, scholion. See also LSJ s.v. e)mpodi/zw. For the Pnyx hill, where the citizen assembly met, see pi 1835, pi 1836, pi 1837.

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)

David Whitehead (augmented n.4 and keywords; cosmetics) on 8 May 2006@03:16:59.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 8 May 2006@05:36:55.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 8 May 2006@12:28:57.
Catharine Roth (changed spelling of phelex, comparing phi 263 and 264, also other lexica cited in Adler's apparatus) on 8 May 2006@12:39:32.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 16 January 2013@05:01:34.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 21 February 2019@20:39:09.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 1 September 2021@11:46:57.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 1 September 2021@17:53:11.

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