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Headword: *pa/camos Adler number: pi,253 Translated headword: Paxamos, Paxamus Vetting Status: high Translation:
A scholar. [He wrote] a Cookery-book, alphabetically arranged; Boiotian Histories,[1] in 2 volumes; Twelve Arts -- its subject is shameful figures;[2] Dyeing, 2 volumes; Agriculture, 2 volumes.[3]
C1 BCE. See FGrH 377 (this testimonium only); Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.376D (9.19 Kaibel); and for fragments, H. Beckh (ed.), Geoponica pp.36-517 passim.
Possibly connected with pi 254, q.v.
[1] Alternatively (as Hemsterhuys suggested), not *boiwtika/ but biwtika/, Victuals.
[2] Possibly figures of speech, but far more probably (given the adjective) sexual positions. See Jacoby's note, and cf. delta 472 and esp. delta 1442.
[3] This last '2', some think, should be six. In any event the Geoponica appears to mention a third volume.
