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Headword: *)/omfac
Adler number: omicron,319
Translated headword: unripe grape
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] cluster which is sour and not ripe. Plato the comic poet has ta\s o)/mfakas ["the unripe grapes"] in the feminine in a play Festivals: "relax your eyebrows and your unripe grapes."[1]
Greek Original:
*)/omfac: stafulh\ drimei=a ou)=sa kai\ ou) pe/peiros. qhlukw=s de\ le/gei ta\s o)/mfakas *pla/twn o( kwmiko\s e)n dra/mati *(eortai=s: kai\ ta\s o)fru=s sxa/sasqe kai\ ta\s o)/mfakas.
Notes:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 352, where o)mfaki/an occurs (web address 1); cf. delta 340, omicron 315.
For this headword see also omicron 320.
[1] Plato Comicus fr. 32 Kock now 31 K.-A.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 January 2010@01:19:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks) on 10 January 2010@05:07:23.
David Whitehead on 30 June 2013@06:42:22.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 1 July 2013@01:33:18.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 27 December 2014@08:49:19.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 17 January 2021@16:35:36.

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