Request for info on hot dogs in literature

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 22, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 12:15 AM -0500 11/22/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> This line is actually from the Odyssey,  not the Iliad. The word
>> translated as "sausage" is gaster [gamma-alpha-sigma-tau-eta-rho],
>> whose literal meaning is "stomach." In some translations of the
>> Odyssey, the literal meaning is used. Presumably, the stomach of some
>> animal was used as the casing for the material(s) used to make the
>> sausage.
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> I wonder if it's rendered as "haggis" in the standard Fitzgerald
> translation...
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> larry
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IMO, that would be a great translation, whether totally accurate or not.

-Wilson