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Headword: *)allantopw/lhs
Adler number: alpha,1067
Translated headword: sausage-seller
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the man selling types of guts, gut-seller. For a)lla=s [is] the gut, [and in the genitive it is] a)lla=ntos.
"Instead of a trophy they set up a standard for the general. And hanging sausages from it they jeered at their enemies with laughter".[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "he wanted to eat sausages out of [the] Apatouria." [The] Apatouria was a public festival celebrated among [the] Athenians.[2]
Greek Original:
*)allantopw/lhs: o( ei)/dh e)nte/rwn pwlw=n, e)nteropw/lhs. a)lla=s ga\r to\ e)/nteron, a)lla=ntos. a)nti\ tropai/ou e)/sthsan tw=| strathgw=| shmei=on. a)lla=nta/s te au)tou= a)pokrema/santes toi=s polemi/ois su\n ge/lwti e)petw/qazon. *)aristofa/nhs: h)/ra fagei=n a)lla=ntas e)c *)apatouri/wn. *)apatou/ria de\ e(orth\ dhmotelh\s a)gome/nh par' *)aqhnai/ois.
Notes:
cf. generally alpha 1076 (and upsilon 390: Greek literature's best-known sausage-seller is the opponent of Paphlagon/Kleon in Aristophanes' Knights, and Adler suggests [addenda] that this material might come from scholia to Knights 141).
[1] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.18.26 (web address 1), on the Byzantine general Petros (quoted approximately); cf. PLRE II s.v. Petrus(27). At Nisibis (cf. nu 426) in 541 CE, Persians sally from the city, surprise and rout lackadaisical troops under Petros's command, capture the general's standard, and mock the Romans by erecting it on a tower, decorated with sausages; cf. Kaldellis (111-112) and alpha 4702.
[2] For this material cf. alpha 2940.
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; food; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 November 2000@17:00:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keyword) on 8 November 2000@06:17:16.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 10 June 2002@07:14:15.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; betacode and other cosmetics) on 2 February 2012@08:46:51.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note) on 21 January 2014@05:00:21.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 January 2014@23:54:43.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2015@08:51:11.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added link) on 14 December 2023@11:54:21.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 14 December 2023@16:30:46.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.1) on 4 January 2024@11:26:16.

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