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Headword: *)akrokw/lia
Adler number: alpha,1006
Translated headword: end-bits, extremities (of the body)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*)akrokw/lia.
Notes:
Neuter plural, used especially of animals: snout, ears, trotters.
This entry is presumably truncated from the one in Photius (and elsewhere), where the phrase a)krokw/lia di/efqa ("well-boiled end-bits") is attributed to the comic poet Teleclides (fr. 48 Kock, now 51 K.-A.).
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 March 2000@09:58:11.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added note.) on 9 June 2000@22:39:16.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@07:57:40.
David Whitehead (augmented note; more keywords) on 31 January 2012@09:41:14.
David Whitehead on 1 January 2015@09:25:31.

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