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Headword: *)amfi/as
Adler number: alpha,1703
Translated headword: amphias
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A mediocre wine.[1] Nicostratus in Winemaker and Sosicrates [mention it].[2]
Greek Original:
*)amfi/as: me/trios oi)=nos. *niko/stratos *oi)nopoiw=| kai\ *swsikra/ths.
Notes:
[1] (From Sicily.) The adjective metrios might have been open to a more favourable interpretation here -- middling, tolerable -- but cf. Athenaeus (next note) on Amphias as a 'poor' wine.
[1] Nicostratus fr. 18 Kock, now 17 K.-A.; Sosicrates fr. 7 Kock, now 4 K.-A. (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31E = 1.57 Kaibel).
Keywords: comedy; definition; food; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 August 2000@22:38:48.
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David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 18 January 2001@06:45:28.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1) on 14 April 2006@04:59:18.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 19 February 2012@05:28:21.
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