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Headword:
*magi/s
Adler number: mu,14
Translated headword: lump, cake, trough
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] knife.[1] Aslo [sc. attested is] ma/geiros ["butcher/cook"], [meaning] he who divides up the barley-cakes.[2]
Greek Original:*magi/s: ma/xaira. kai\ ma/geiros, o( ta\s ma/zas meri/zwn.
Notes:
Likewise in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu11 Theodoridis); and cf.
Aristophanes of
Byzantium fr. 52 Nauck.
[1] "Knife" does not seem to be one of the attested meanings of
magi/s (for which see also
mu 15). For
machaira see also
mu 302.
[2] See also
mu 10. Compare Herodian the grammarian, quoted by Orion [
Author,
Myth] 100.4, whence
Etymologicum Magnum 573.4.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 September 2004@01:03:46.
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