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Headword:
Ἀβυρτάκη
Adler number: alpha,103
Translated headword: sour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A sharp-flavored barbarian dish, prepared from leeks and cress[-seeds] and pomegranate kernels and other such things, quite clearly pungent.
Theopompus in
Theseus [writes]: "he will reach the land of the Medes, where aburtake is made mostly of cress and leeks."[1] The noun also appears in the
Kekruphalos of
Menander.[2]
Ἀβυρτάκη: ὑπότριμμα βαρβαρικὸν, κατασκευαζόμενον διὰ πράσων καὶ καρδάμων καὶ ῥόας κόκκων καὶ ἑτέρων τοιούτων, δριμὺ δηλονότι. Θεόπομπος Θησεῖ: ἥξει δὲ Μήδων γαῖαν, ἔνθα καρδάμων πλείστων ποιεῖται καὶ πράσων ἀβυρτάκη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Κεκρυφάλῳ Μενάνδρου τοὔνομα.
Notes:
[1]
Theopompus fr.17 Kock. In the long list of food allowances for the Persian Kings (allegedly seen in Babylon by Alexander the Great) in
Polyaenus 4.3.32 there is a mention of salted capers "from which they make
abyrtakai".
[2]
Menander fr.280 Kock. For other appearances of the word in comedy see LSJ s.v. at web address 1 below.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; comedy; food; geography
Translated by: Elizabeth Vandiver on 21 November 1998@17:00:55.
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