228

Πρωτεσίλαος (fr. 42)

ύδρομέλιτι ή ζωμώ όρνιθος κοιλίαν καθαίρει. Thphr. HP 6.4.5 distinguishes
three types of the plant, two wild and one cultivated.
έλάαι Olives occur regularly in catalogues of food (e. g. Ar. fr. 581.3;
Antiph. fr. 140.2; Mnesim. fr. 4.29); cf. Arnott 1996 of Alex. fr. 263.3; Olson-
Sens 2000 on Archestr. fr. 8 (SH138).
στέμφυλ(α) Pressed cakes made from olives; cf. Phryn. Ecl. 385 στέμφυλα·
οί μέν πολλοί τα των βοτρύων έκπιέσματα άμαθώς, οί δ’ Αττικοί στέμφυλα
έλαών with Fischer 1974 ad loc. for further references, to which add e. g. Hsch.
σ 1737; EM p. 216.21); ΣΕΘΝΑ Ar. Nu. 45; Arnott 1996 on Alex. fr. 201.1.
άμητες For milk-cakes (cf. yRV®NBarl,Rs Ar. pi 999 είδος πλακούντες γαλα-
κτώδους; Phot, α 1195 with Theodoridis 1982 ad loc. for further references) in
catalogues of food, e. g. Amph. fr. 9.3; Ephipp. fr. 8.3; Alex. fr. 168.5; cf. Telecl.
fr. 1.12.
57 πράσα For leeks in catalogues of food, cf. Chionid. fr. 7; Alex. fr.
132.8; in general, see Gal. Alim. 2.43, 69; Arnott 1996 on Alex. fr. 132.8.
γήτειον This vegetable has not been precisely identified, although it is
clearly related to the onion; Thphr. HP 7.4.10 describes it as άκέφαλόν τι (i. e.
having no bulb) καί ώσπερ αυχένα μακράν έχον, δθεν καί ή βλάστησις άκρα.
For a general discussion, including rejection of several possible identifications,
see Arnott 1996 on Alex. fr. 132.7; cf. Neil 1901 on Ar. Eq. 677.
κρόμμυα Onions often occur in comedy as typical soldiers’ rations (e. g.
Ar. Eq. 600; Pax 1129), but appear in catalogues of food, presumably from
banquets or the like, at Antiph. frr. 63.1; 71.2; Philem. fr. 113.3.
φυστή A kind of cake similar to μάζα (cf. Ar. V. 610 φυστήν μάζαν; Moer.
φ 10 τό φύραμα τών άλφίτων, όταν μή γένηται μάζα) and made from groats
with the addition of wine or honey (cf. ΣνΓ Ar. V. 610 έξ άλφίτου καί οίνου; EM
ρ. 803.1 τά άναπεφυρμένα μέλιτι άλφιτα); cf. Gow-Page 1965 on ΑΡ 7.736.6
(HE 2172). The word occurs elsewhere in comedy at Chionid. fr. 7.
58 βολβοί See on 28.
καυλοί, σίλφιον καυλός means ‘stalk’ or ‘stem’, but here and in similar
contexts refers to silphium stalk; σίλφιον, the name for the plant as a whole,
seems normally to be used in this and similar contexts for a specific part of it,
either the root (so Olson-Sens 2000 on Archestr. fr. 9.1 [SH 137]) or the seed
(so Arnott 1996 on Alex. fr. 132.5). Although the plant has not been specifically
identified, both silphium and its parts are common in catalogues (e. g. Antiph.
frr. 70.1; 140.1; Mnesim. fr. 4.30); for the collocation here, cf. Alex. fr. 132.5
καυλόν, σίλφιον; Eub. fr. 6.3 ού καυλοΐσιν ούδέ σιλφίω (cf. fr. 18.3-4).98 In

98 Unease with this collocation is presumably the cause behind LSJ’s ill-considered
definition of καυλός (s. v. II) in these three fragments; this portion of LSJ’s entry