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Headword:
Apênthrakizen
Adler number: alpha,3171
Translated headword: began to charbroil
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] began to grill/roast. For what is done out of [ = on] coals, is done well.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[she] began to charbroil a whole ox."[1]
Apênthrakizen: ôpta. ta gar ex anthrakôn ginomena, kala ginetai. Aristophanês: boun apênthrakiz' holon.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Frogs 506 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there on the verb used. A slave is describing Persephone's preparations, in the underworld, as soon as she heard that the hungry Herakles was coming.
cf. generally
alpha 2523.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; mythology; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 July 2000@23:20:57.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; supplemented note; minor cosmetics) on 16 March 2001@06:53:00.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 March 2012@07:01:41.
Catharine Roth (fixed link) on 30 March 2012@19:32:45.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 3 November 2013@00:35:34.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 9 August 2015@06:48:39.
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