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Headword:
Μάκτρα
Adler number: mu,86
Translated headword: kneading-trough
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A long mortar, in which they knead dough.
Aristophanes [writes] in
Plutus: "and instead of a kneading-trough a broken side of a cask."
Μάκτρα: θυεία ἐπιμήκης, ἐν ᾗ μάττουσι τὰ ἄλευρα. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ: ἀντὶ δὲ μάκτρας πιθάκνης πλευρὰν ἐρρωγυῖαν.
Note:
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 545-6 with scholion; read Attic
φιδάκνης for the Suda's
πιθάκνης .
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 15 June 2007@10:14:36.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 June 2007@03:46:13.
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