Δαίς
feast
Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Dec 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δαίς· ἡ εὐωχία. καὶ Δαῖτα θάλειαν ὅτε φησί, στοιχείου μεταθέσει δίαιτάν φασι λέγεσθαι. τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ δαίσασθαι λέγειν, βιαιότερον.
Betacode
*dai/s: h( eu)wxi/a. kai\ *dai=ta qa/leian o(/te fhsi/, stoixei/ou metaqe/sei di/aita/n fasi le/gesqai. to\ de\ a)po\ tou= dai/sasqai le/gein, biaio/teron.
Notes (1)
- [1] Likewise in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.225; cf. delta 112, delta 126, delta 127, delta 128.↩
- 2Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.24B (1.44 Kaibel), citing the Augustan-age scholar Seleucus.
*dai/sasqai is an aorist middle infinitive, either from the verbdai/numi ["I feast"] ordai/w , which can mean "I feast" but which has a broader semantic sense of "divide, distribute". See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on this verb. - 2Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.24B (1.44 Kaibel), citing the Augustan-age scholar Seleucus.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from5 entries
- δ112Δαίειburns[dai/ei means the same as] kai/ei. Also [sc. attested is the participle] daiome/nh ["being apportioned"], [meaning] being distributed, being divided. For dai/w ["I apportion"] also means I distribute. Out of this also…
- δ120Δαίνυfeast[Meaning] entertain sumptuously. Homer [writes]: "feast a feast for the elders." Also [sc. attested is] dainu/menos ["one who is being feasted"], [meaning one who is] being entertained sumptuously.
- δ126Δαῖταςfeasts[Meaning] parties. "Phoebus,... accept from the sailors this feast of hand-kneaded barley cake." Also, "just as Hesiod represents the sons of Aeacus as 'rejoicing in war as if in a feast."
- δ127ΔαιτήfeastIn the nominative [sc. this noun is spelled] with eta. [Meaning] a party. But in the dative, daiti/, [meaning] for/to/with the party; out of dai/s, [genitive] daito/s, [comes dative] daiti/.
- δ128Δαιτὸς ἐΐσηςof an equal banquet[Meaning] from feasting divided equally. But Zenodotus says [it means] "of good [feasting]," since nourishment is good for mankind. Since the first human beings, who did not have bountiful nourishment, snatched it by…
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict