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Headword: Φακαῖ
Adler number: phi,23
Translated headword: lentil-soups
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The boiled mash of the lentil.
In the feminine [one finds] ἑψηθεῖσα ["boiled"], in the masculine ἀνέψητος ["unboiled"].[1] And a proverb: "Then being wealthy he no longer delights in lentil-soup: formerly he was indeed eating everything because of his poverty." In reference to those having become rich from being poor.[2]
Also lentil, the raw pulse.
Water-phakos, a kind of water-holding vessel for travellers, which rustically is called by us askodaula. And it was brought by Saul when he was pursuing David.[3]
[It is said] that the doctor Dioscorides was given the nickname Phakas ["Moley"] because of the moles upon his face.[4]
Proverb: "You have power over a corner of a lentil;" in reference to the weak.[5] Proverb: "You are chopping up a lentil;" in reference to things that are never-ending and non-existent.[6]
Greek Original:
Φακαῖ: τὸ ἕψημα τοῦ φακοῦ. θηλυκῶς ἡ ἑψηθεῖσα, ἀρσενικῶς δὲ ὁ ἀνέψητος. καὶ παροιμία: ἔπειτα πλουτῶν οὐκ ἔθ' ἥδεται φακῇ: προτοῦ δ' ὑπὸ τῆς πενίας ἅπαντά γ' ἤσθιεν. ἐπὶ τῶν πλουσίων γεγονότων ἀπὸ πενήτων. καὶ Φακός, τὸ ὠμὸν ὄσπριον. Φακὸς ὕδατος, εἶδος ὑδατοδόχου ἀγγείου ἐνοδίου, ὃ ἀγροικικῶς παρ' ἡμῖν ἀσκοδαῦλα λέγεται. καὶ ἐπεφέρετο παρὰ τοῦ Σαούλ, ὅτε ἐδίωκε τὸν Δαβίδ. ὅτι Φακᾶς Διοσκουρίδης ὁ ἰατρὸς ἐπεκλήθη, διὰ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς ὄψεως φακούς. παροιμία: Φακοῦ γωνίαν κρατεῖς: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀδυνάτων. παροιμία: Φακὸν κόπτεις: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνηνύτων καὶ μὴ ὄντων λέγεται.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 192, where lentil-soup is mentioned.
[2] Aristophanes, Plutus 1004-5, with comment from the scholia there.
[3] I Kingdoms 26:16.
[4] From delta 1206.
[5] Prov.Plut. 39.
[6] App.Prov. 4.58; cf. pi 1776.
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Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 12 June 2003@08:03:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified aspects of the translation; added notes; augmented keywords) on 12 June 2003@08:36:37.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 18 December 2005@22:54:57.
David Whitehead (tweaked end of tr) on 19 December 2005@03:11:04.

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