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Headword: *(/alas qumi/tas
Adler number: alpha,1078
Translated headword: thymed salts
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones] prepared out of [= with] thyme.[1]
And [there is] another saying: "it's raining with salts", in reference to excessive prosperity.[2]
Greek Original:
*(/alas qumi/tas: e)k qu/mwn kataskeuasqe/ntas. kai\ e(te/ra paroimi/a: *(/alasin u(/ei, e)pi\ th=s a)/gan eu)qhni/as.
Notes:
[1] The headword-phrase, in the accusative case, is a quotation from Aristophanes, Acharnians 1099, and the gloss here comes from the scholia thereto.
[2] With sausages, rather (alpha 1076); cf. Hesychius alpha3273.
Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; imagery; proverbs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@00:18:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and keywords) on 8 November 2000@06:52:36.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 10 June 2002@08:18:42.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 2 February 2012@10:23:25.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2015@10:40:13.
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