ἀφρόνιτρον
διὸ δὴ πᾶς ἀνὴρ σπουδαῖος τῶν ὄντων σπουδαίων πέρι πολλοῦ δεῖ μὴ γράψας ποτὲ ἐν ἀνθρώποις εἰς φθόνον καὶ ἀπορίαν καταβαλεῖ → And this is the reason why every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing, lest thereby he may possibly cast them as a prey to the envy and stupidity of the public | Therefore every man of worth, when dealing with matters of worth, will be far from exposing them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing
English (LSJ)
Att. ἀφρόλιτρον (the two distd. by Gal.l.c., cf. Gp. 2.28), τό, a form of
A native sodium carbonate (cf.νίτρον), distd. by Gal. 12.212 from the finer ἄνθος νίτρου, cf. Herod.Med. ap. Orib.6.20.5: in Hp. and correct Greek divisim ἀφρὸς νίτρου: hence ἀφρόνιτρον is condemned by Phryn.272.
German (Pape)
[Seite 415] τό, att. ἀφρόλιτρον, Diosc., auswitterndes Kali, Mauersalz, vgl. Lob. Phryn. 303.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀφρόνιτρον: Ἀττ. ἀφρόλιτρον, τό, εἶδος οὐχὶ καθαρᾶς σόδας ἢ ποτάσσης (πρβλ. νίτρον), διακρινομένης ὑπὸ τοῦ Γαλην. ἀπὸ τῆς καθαρωτέρας, ἥτις καλεῖται ἄνθος νίτρου· παρ’ Ἱππ. καὶ τοῖς δοκίμ. συγγραφ. διῃρημένως, ἀφρὸς νίτρου Λοβ. Φρύν. 303.
