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Headword:
Halas
thumitas
Adler number: alpha,1078
Translated headword: thymed salts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] prepared out of [= with] thyme.[1]
And [there is] another saying: "it's raining with salts", in reference to excessive prosperity.[2]
Greek Original:Halas thumitas: ek thumôn kataskeuasthentas. kai hetera paroimia: Halasin huei, epi tês agan euthênias.
Notes:
[1] The headword-phrase, in the accusative case, is a quotation from
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1099, and the gloss here comes from the
scholia thereto.
[2] With sausages, rather (
alpha 1076); cf.
Hesychius alpha3273.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@00:18:21.
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