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Headword: Alphitamoibous
Adler number: alpha,1453
Translated headword: barley-meal-dealers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "if he shuts his door, [...] the barley-meal-dealers should provide three quarts as dinner to all the poor - or else long regret it."[1]
Greek Original:
Alphitamoibous: Aristophanês: ên d' apoklinêi tên thuran, tous alphitamoibous tois aporois treis choinikas deipnon parechein hapasin ê klaiein makra.
Notes:
The headword, in the accusative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. For barley-meal cf. alpha 1451, alpha 1452, alpha 1454, alpha 1455, alpha 1456.
[1] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 420 and 424-5, divided between two speakers (web address 1); again at tau 406.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; food; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2000@16:18:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 February 2001@06:51:31.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 6 February 2001@06:54:33.
Catharine Roth (added link and keywords) on 19 October 2010@21:50:53.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 20 October 2010@03:05:25.
David Whitehead on 11 February 2012@07:05:22.
David Whitehead (tweaks; x-refs) on 14 December 2014@04:44:18.

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