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Headword:
Akêmata
Adler number: alpha,866
Translated headword: cures
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] remedies.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "curing of pains", [meaning] the baths;[2] and they relax fatigue in the sea, which is especially good for the nerves, but slackening the crampings of the muscles [in bath-tubs]; then smearing on oil, so that their bodies would not become stiff once the water had dried.
Greek Original:Akêmata: iamata. kai Akê ponôn, ta loutra: kai kopon men thalattêi luousin, hê malista tois neurois esti prosphoros, anachalôntes de tas tôn muôn sustaseis, eit' epaleiphontes lipa pros tôi mê rhanthentos tou hudatos apesklêrumena ginesthai ta sômata.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing of this neuter plural in
Photius and other lexica, and also in the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 15.394, where either it or the variant
akesmata occurs; cf. already
alpha 848.
[2] This and what follows comes from
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophistai 1.24C-D (1.44 Kaibel), discussing bathing in
Homer.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@23:10:49.
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