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Headword:
Ἐδωδίμων
Adler number: epsilon,254
Translated headword: edible
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Suitable for eating.[1]
"So since, being unaware of his prior preparation, they had put nothing edible in storage, and because their land was poor, and being excluded from every marketplace in the vicinity ..."[2]
Greek Original:Ἐδωδίμων: βρωσίμων. ἐπείπερ οὖν τὴν προπαρασκευὴν αὐτοῦ ἀγνοοῦντες οὐδὲν ἐδώδιμον ἐποίησαν ἐν ἀποθέτῳ, λυπρᾶς οὔσης αὐτῶν τῆς γῆς, καὶ πάσης ἀθρόον ἀγορᾶς διακλεισθέντες.
Notes:
[1] Genitive plural, quoted from somewhere (not from the quotation which follows).
[2] Once attributed to
Polybius (as his fr. 120), and Adler suggested
Aelian -- but now assigned by A. Favuzzi to book 30 of
Diodorus: see at
alpha 3680, and cf.
delta 584,
epsilon 1102.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 February 2006@01:05:57.
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