μᾶζα, ἡ,
(μάσσω, on the accent see Hdn.Gr. 2.937; later μάζα Moer. p.258 P.) barley-cake, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 2, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.200, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 246, etc.; ἀμολγαίη 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 590 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κυρβαίη (variant κυρκ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 15.6; φυστή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 610: distinguished from ἄρτος (wheaten bread), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 8, compare “Acut.” 37, “Aff.” 52, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 606, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 226.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.11, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.114e; μ. καὶ ὕδωρ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.64U. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δουλίας μ. τυχεῖν to eat the bread of slavery, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1041: proverbial, ἀγαθὴ καὶ μᾶζα μετ᾽ ἄρτον] Refs 4th c.BC+], of second best things, [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 1.12 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μᾶζαν μεμαχώς having baked a cake, with a play on μάχην μεμαχημένος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 55. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II generally, lump, mass, ball, [[ LXX “Bel” 27, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs] see at {παλάθα; χρυσοῦ} [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 5.1.10, compare 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.79] Refs 1st c.AD+]: especially in Alchemy, amalgam, ἀνέκλειπτος μ. [[ “PHolm.” 2.17, “PLeid.X.” 7. ] Refs]