Lattigini di morena
English translation: lamprey milt (milky white) (milky moray eel, moray eel viscera) (murenarum lactes)
| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| 03:57 Aug 11, 2023 |
| Italian to English translations [PRO] Food & Drink / exotic food at a Roman feast | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||||
|  Selected response from: Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A. Austria Local time: 18:32 | ||||||
Grading comment
| |||||||
| Summary of answers provided | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 +3 | lamprey milt (milky white) (milky moray eel, moray eel viscera) (murenarum lactes) |
|
| Summary of reference entries provided | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
| Discussion entries: 4 | |
|---|---|
Answers
5 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3| lattigini di morena lamprey milt (milky white) (milky moray eel, moray eel viscera) (murenarum lactes) Explanation: "murenarum lactes" = latte di murena (in latino: sostanza molle e lattiginosa che si trova nelle interiora murenarum lactes = lamprey milt (i.e. the testes, containing sperm) The milt is milky white in appearance, with a delicate and smooth mouthfeel and a mild, slightly fishy taste lamprey (eel-like sea animal) = lampreda For the final item, Suetonius returns to the water. Lamprey, a meaty fish, was an expensive Roman delicacy, though its appeal is known best through a much later anecdote: Henry I of England is said to have died from a surfeit of lampreys.Footnote 34 These creatures are native to the western and central Mediterranean, and according to Pliny (HN 9.169), the best lampreys were found around Sicily, though from the late Republic they were farmed. Anecdotes tend to dwell not on their taste, but on the habits of their owners: some affected to pamper the animals (Plin. HN 9.171–2), while Vedius Pollio (9.77) notoriously (and improbably) killed enslaved members of his household by feeding them to his lampreys. Murenarum lactes are lamprey milt, i.e. the testes, containing sperm. The milt is milky white in appearance, with a delicate and smooth mouthfeel and a mild, slightly fishy taste. Lampreys spawn from mid-Spring to mid-Summer, and the milt would therefore have been available to be served on the Shield.Footnote 37 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/greece-and-rome/arti... lampreda (dal latino lampreda; fr. lamproie; sp. lamprea; ted. Pricke, Neunauge; ingl. lamprey) Genere di Pesci, della classe Ciclostomi o Marsipobranchî, ordine Iperoarti, famiglia Petromizontidi. Il genere che ha dato il nome alla famiglia è Petromyzon L. (dal gr. πέτρον "pietra" e μύζω "succhio"), al quale soltanto la grossa lampreda marina (P. marinus L.) è ascritta dai sistematici moderni; è specie anadroma, che risale i fiumi per la deposizione delle uova, e può raggiungere fino a 90 cm. di lunghezza. La lampreda di fiume (Lampetra fluviatilis L.), lunga 30-40 cm., vive anch'essa nel mare e risale i fiumi per riprodursi. La lampreda di ruscello (L. planeri Bl.) lunga da 10 a 20 cm., invece, completa il ciclo vitale nelle acque dolci. Tutte tre le specie sono diffuse in Europa, e comuni in Italia (v. ciclostomi). https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lampreda_(Enciclopedia-... lattigini di morena = milky moray eel, moray eel viscera ... with ciguatoxin Structures and configurations of ciguatoxin from the moray eel ... ... The toxin, isolated from the moray eel Gymnothorax javanicus, and its congener, ... as a white solid from 125 kg of moray eel viscera. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja00167a040 Introduction to Ancient Roman Food ... Another common food was fish which were often bred in nurseries. Over 100 types have been identified, from bream, mullet, turbot, sole, snapper, mackerel, octopus, dates, prawns, scampi, cuttlefish, tuna to moray eels, lobsters and oysters. The poorer levels of society had to make do mostly with fish preserved in brine. https://www.deliciousitaly.com/lazio-rome-food-wine/introduc... Riaprendo il buon vecchio vocabolario di latino scopriamo che "lactes" (al solo plurale e femminile) indica i visceri, meglio l'intestino (al di sotto dell'ombelico per la precisione, "Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ"), le budella degli animali. Con "murenarum lactes", latte di murena, i latini definivano la sostanza molle e lattiginosa che si trova nelle interiora. E' dunque probabile che l'immagine dei visceri (e forse altro!) che per stanchezza, si srotolano, allungandosi e distendendosi fino a toccare le ginocchia possa pure aver dato luogo a quella di rilassamento, noia e impotenza". https://www.caveri.it/blog/2021/06/15/fra-buonismo-e-cattivi... |
| |
Grading comment
| ||