δ31Δαλίον
dalion
The comic poets [render it] thus, with a lambda. "Come now, I will [take and] dip this torch." For by dipping, it seems, they used to purify the fire. But others write da|di/on. [sc. also attested is] Dalidas,…
Δαλίον· οὕτως οἱ κωμικοὶ διὰ τοῦ λ. φέρε δὴ τὸ δαλίον τόδ' ἐμβάψω. ἐδόκουν γὰρ καθαίρειν ἀποβάπτοντες τοῦ πυρός. οἱ δὲ δᾳδίον γράφουσιν. ἡ δαλιδᾶς, τῆς δαλιδᾶ.