μᾶζα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, ([[μάσσω]], on the accent v. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.937</span>; later μάζα Moer.<span class="bibl">p.258</span> P.) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[barley-cake]], <span class="bibl">Archil.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.200</span>, <span class="bibl">Democr.246</span>, etc.; ἀμολγαίη <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>590</span>; [[κυρβαίη]] (v.l. κυρκ-) <span class="bibl">Hom.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>15.6</span>; φυστή <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>610</span>: distd. from [[ἄρτος]] (wheaten bread), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>8</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Acut.</span> 37</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aff.</span>52</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>606</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.226.1</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.2.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.3.114e</span>; μ. καὶ ὕδωρ <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span>3p.64U.</span>; <b class="b3">δουλίας μ. τυχεῖν</b> to eat [[the bread]] of slavery, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1041</span>: prov., <b class="b3">ἀγαθὴ καὶ μᾶζα μετ' ἄρτον</b>, of second best things, <span class="bibl">Zen.1.12</span>; <b class="b3">μᾶζαν μεμαχώς</b> having baked [[a cake]], with a play on <b class="b3">μάχην μεμαχημένος</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>55</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[lump]], [[mass]], [[ball]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Bel</span>27</span>, Suid. s.v. [[παλάθαι; χρυσοῦ]] <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>5.1.10</span>, cf. Dsc.5.79: esp. in Alchemy, [[amalgam]], ἀνέκλειπτος μ. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHolm.</span>2.17</span>, <span class="title">PLeid.X.</span>7.</span>