Διακόνιον

Some [say that it is] the bottom part of a flat-cake, but Menecles in the Chest of Rare Words has said the following about it:¹ "whenever Athenians perform the so-called eiresione to Apollo,² playing a lyre and a cymbal and [carrying?] a branch and some other (?) round cakes they call these diakonion."³ [The word] is said in reference to something/someone strong.⁴ Likewise, Amerias⁵ also [says that] diakonia are the cakes formed at the eiresione for Apollo. But some say [that diakonion is] a certain type of sauce, while others [say] a barley-cake.