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[246] θρέψας, ‘having curdled half the white milk, he set it down in wicker baskets, having collected it together.’ With θρέψας in the sense of ‘having thickened,’ cp. “τρόφι κῦμα Il.11. 307.In Homeric times milk was curdled by stirring in the juice of the wild fig-tree, “ὀπός Il.5. 902.The later name for ‘rennet’ was “πυετία”, or, in Doric, “τάμισος” Theocr. 7. 16.

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