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Headword: Μᾶζα
Adler number: mu,34
Translated headword: barley-cake
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Bread, dough.[1]
Or tough bread.[2]
"Whoever eats barley bread, eats the barley cake mixed with water; but whoever eats wheaten bread, eats bread moistened with water."[3]
The Megarians [say] μάδδα with two deltas.[4]
Greek Original:
Μᾶζα: ἄρτος, φύραμα. ἢ ὁ στριφνὸς ἄρτος. ὅστις ἀλφιοσιτεῖ, ὕδατι μεμιγμένην τὴν μᾶζαν ἐσθίει: ὅστις δὲ ἀρτοσιτεῖ, ὕδατι δεδευμένον ἄρτον. οἱ δὲ Μεγαρεῖς μάδδα, διὰ δύο δδ.
Notes:
[1] Similarly glossed by Photius, Erotianus, and other lexica.
[2] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Peace 565, where the headword occurs (web address 1). Cf. pi 167.
[3] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.28 (web address 2); quoted already at alpha 1456 and alpha 4053.
[4] From mu 30.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 May 2008@11:00:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 6 May 2008@14:31:47.
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