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Headword:
Ἄγλιθες
Adler number: alpha,270
Translated headword: garlic-crowns
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The heads of garlic plants.
Aristophanes [writes]: "like field-mice, you dig garlic-heads with a peg".[1]
Ἄγλιθες: αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν σκορόδων. Ἀριστοφάνης: ὡς ἀρουραῖοι μύες ὀρύσσετε πασσάλῳ τὰς ἄγλιθας.
Notes:
The headword, nominative plural of
ἄγλις , is generated by the quotation given (where it is accusative plural).
[1] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 762-3, with scholion.
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Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; zoology
Translated by: Roger Travis on 6 October 2000@12:49:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 18 January 2001@06:04:48.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 5 January 2012@04:49:50.
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