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τροφαλίς

τροφαλίς, a piece

τροφαλ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
  • fresh cheese, Eup. 277, Antiph. 49 (troch.); τροφαλίδα τυροῦ Σικελικὴν κατεδήδοκεν a piece of Sicilian cheese, Ar. V. 838, cf. Herm.Hist. 2; whence the joke, καλεῖ . . τὴν . . Τυρὼ τροφαλίδα Com.Adesp. 393; τ. ὀβολιαῖαι Arist. HA 522a31.—The form τρυφαλίς is common in later writers, as Luc. Lex. 13, Hdn.Gr. 2.18 (rejected in favour of τροφαλίς Id. 1.91), Hsch.; τὰς δέκα στρυʼ φαλιδας (sic cod. A, ν superscr. A1) τοῦ γάλακτος LXX 1 Ki. 17.18; a form τροφαλλίς occurs in codd. of Eust. 1535.22 (in citation of Com.Adesp. l.c.); Hsch. also cites τραφαλλίς, τραφαλλος. (From τρέφω I acc. to Hdn.Gr. 1.91, but the spelling τρυφ-, which he mentions, remains, unexplained: oxyt. acc. to Hdn.Gr. ll. cc., so that the accus. τρόφαλιν in Erot. s.v. τεθραμμένον must be an error.)

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