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Originally Posted by pjt33
Google Books finds a reference to " sorb-apple" (whatever that is) in an English translation by Benjamin Jowett in 1871. Maybe it's an issue of textual criticism?
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After the description of three sexes, the third being spherical, The Plato text reads (I'm translating directly) that Zeus cuts the third spherical human (anthropos) into two "as you split
oa into two before pickling them" This
oa is given by LSJ as the plural of
oon, the fruit of the service-tree
Sorbus domestica, the sorb-apple. Note that the human is not compared with that fruit, only the method of dissection is, i.e. vertically downwards.