[Meaning] ground boulted [barley].[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "I put it on a slimming diet [...] of little epics." Not from groats but from manners, men and books.[1]
*ptisa/nh: h( kekomme/nh kaqara/. *)aristofa/nhs: i)/sxnana e)pulli/ois. ou)k a)po\ ptisa/nhs, a)ll' a)po\ h)qw=n a)ndrw=n kai\ bibli/wn.
[1] cf.
Synagoge pi763 and
Photius pi1478 Theodoridis, which allow the supplement 'barley' here.
[2] An abridgment of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 941-2 (
Euripides characterizing his reformations of the art of tragedy; see also
iota 707), with comments from
scholia not on these lines but on the next line (943) in which
Euripides says (in the reading followed by the
scholia) that he also gave it "porridge of chatterings from books [and] from manners" (most modern editions have this as "porridge of chatterings that I strained off from books", "from manners" (
a)p' h)qw=n) probably being an error for the participle "straining off" (
a)phqw=n)). The present headword appears only in the scholiast's comments, not in the text of
Aristophanes.
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