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is a fictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen.
It is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek word . In one dictionary, it is defined as a "name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces."
It is the longest Greek word. The Greek word has 183 letters and 78 syllables. The transliteration has 183 Latin characters. It is the longest word ever to appear in literature according to the Guinness World Records (1990).
Variant forms
The form of the word quoted here is in fact the one listed in LSJ (1940) and quoted therein as having been amended by August Meineke;
Description
The dish was a fricassée, with at least 16 sweet and sour ingredients, including the following:
English verse translation by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1902) follows the original meter and the original way of composition:
Older English verse translation by Rev. Rowland Smith (1833) breaks the original word into several verses:

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