Talk:Unsupported titles/Ancient Greek dish

What text is this word actually from? It can't have been common. Equinox ◑ 23:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's cited in the etymology. It's in one of Aristophanes' comedies. --EncycloPetey 23:46, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Declension
I want a declension table. --Vahagn Petrosyan 17:51, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Title template
Shouldn’t this entry have at the top, so as to display the title correctly? (I can’t add it, as the page is locked.) Vorziblix (talk) 14:39, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks. — Ungoliant (falai) 14:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Difference in spelling
I noticed that there is a difference in the spelling of the word. I mark them with bold: λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλ­πικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων

On Open Library, there is a scan of the 1902 Bell edition which on page 176 has the following differences with the version above: On the other hand, the Greek-English lexicon by Liddell & Scott gives the same spelling as on this page, with the note, 'as emended by Meineke'.
 * 1) the κ (kappa) is a π (pi) instead
 * 2) the β is absent
 * 3) the ο (omikron) is an ε (epsilon) instead

The famous Eugene O'Neill used a transliteration of the word (instead of attempting to translate it) in his translation of the play. Instead of -karabo- or -parao- (on the place of the bold κ and β), he has -tyro-. This concurs with the Greek edition by F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart (1907), shown on the same web page. Hall/Geldart and O'Neill have an ο in -οπτο-.

I'll guess that the differences are due to different Greek manuscripts being used. Bever (talk) 04:30, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Just now I discovered there was also a discussion of the various forms on Talk:lepadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiotyromelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephaliokinklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetragalopterygon. Bever (talk) 04:36, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Other than using different manuscripts, the variation can also be due to difficulties in reading the old ink and handwriting.
 * I found another version (J. van Leeuwen, Sijthof 1905) with even more differences. In the part -αλεκτρυον-οπτο-κεφαλλιο-κιγκλο- it has a γ after -οπτο-, -κεφαλλιο- is spelled as -κεφαλο- (single λ, without the ι), and it ends with -λοπτερυγον instead of -νοπτερυγών. Nice about this edition is that it mentions the variations in several earlier editions in footnotes. Bever (talk) 05:05, 18 December 2014 (UTC)