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- δ228ΔεξικράτηςDexikrates, DexicratesC3 BCE. Kassel-Austin, PCG V p.16. [1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.124B (3.97 Kaibel), quoting a fragment. This is the only play mentioned (or known from anywhere else), so the Suda's plural is clumsy.
- δ359ΔειπνοσοφισταίDeipnosophistai, Deipnosophistae, Deipnosophists, Dinner-Sophists, Sophists at Dinner[1] Abridged from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.1D-E (1.2 Kaibel). See also the entry "Keitoukeitos" (kappa 1482). [2] alpha 731.
- δ1155ΔιοκλῆςDiokles, Diocles… 457. [5] cf. alpha 3977, xi 98, omicron 421. [6] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel).
- δ475ΔημώναξDemonax… of uncertain date (Snell, TGF 1.320); a Mantinean military instructor (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4. 154D-E [4.41 Kaibel]); and a long-lived Cynic philosopher of the C2 CE (OCD(4) s.v.).
- δ1152ΔιόδωροςDiodoros, Diodorus… 327. The same might have happened at epsilon 2493. [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.431C (10.38 Kaibel). [3] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.235D (6.27 Kaibel), 6.239A (6.36 Kaibel). ['12th' needs emendation, to 6th.]
- δ1272Δὶς κράμβη θάνατοςtwice-cooked cabbage (is) death… see kappa 2318, and generally the dossier of material in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.369E-370F (9.9-10 Kaibel).
- δ26Δακτυλήθραfinger-shield[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.6D (1.10 Kaibel); cf. pi 1088 and pi 1591.
- δ443ΔημοκλείδαςDemokles-types, sons of Demokles… now 311 Kassel-Austin). Demokles is possibly the parasite mentioned in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.584F (13.48 Kaibel), though the name is far too common to be certain of this.
- δ67ΔάπτωI devour… delta 70.) Similarly in Hesychius s.v. darda/ptousin; and see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.363A (8.64 Kaibel). [2] Babrius 95.92 (of a lion); cf. pi 197. (The Athonite ms of Babrius, however, reads la/ptwn "lapping, licking.")
- δ355Δειπνητόςdinner-time… in two entries in the Ambrosian Lexicon (297, 293). [3] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.9A (1.15 Kaibel); cf. omicron 251. [4] Artemidorus 5.82.
- δ1483ΔώσωνDoson… Since this Antigonos apparently had another epithet, Guardian (Livy 40.54.5; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.251D [6.58 Kaibel]), Hammond & Walbank regard it as possible that dw/swn is a Macedonian word with that meaning (so already K.J. …
- δ124Δαίςfeast… cf. delta 112, delta 126, delta 127, delta 128. [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.24B (1.44 Kaibel), citing the Augustan-age scholar Seleucus. *dai/sasqai is an aorist middle infinitive, either from the verb dai/numi ["I feast"] or …
- δ1627Δυσείμωνill-clad… of hexameter poetry attributed to Hesiod (fr. 372 Merkelbach-West, in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.116A [3.84 Kaibel]): "ill-clad fisherfolk" In Hesychius s.v. the (singular) headword is glossed with a)kth/mwn, "possession-less". Wearing only an i(ma/tion without a …
- δ1175ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… authors, but did not succeed' (Rusten) -- see also (e.g.) Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.515E (12.11 Kaibel). [3] Here nominative, but better (as in some of the mss) accusative. [4] Bernhardy reallocated the phrase 'for Parmenon' …
- δ416ΔημάδηςDemades… and everything here (including the aulos-playing mother, a hetaira: see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.591F [13.61 Kaibel]) can in one way or another be attributed to him. [1] And thus a putative non-citizen.
- δ1548Δρύππαripe olive… address 1), alike Latin drupa, -ae. For this last see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.56A (2.47 Kaibel), quoting Eupolis; Pliny the Elder, Natural History 15.1.2 and passim. Note that nowadays drupe covers every kind of fleshy …
- δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… so-called "dramatic" aorist, expressing a sudden thought. [6] According to Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.260B (6.76 Kaibel) and 14.614D (14.3 Kaibel) the festival of Hercules featured some burlesque rituals to which a large group of gelwtopoioi/ …
- δ437Δημιουργοίartisans, craftsmen, public workers… where the headword occurs in the genitive plural. [1] See Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.172C-D [4.72 Kaibel] (which may or may not exemplify the meaning given here); also 4.172A. For what little survives of this play …
- δ128Δαιτὸς ἐΐσηςof an equal banquet… alpha 4325, alpha 4326. [4] All this material comes from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.12C-F (1.21 Kaibel); the last comment refers to a dispute over the correct reading at Homer, Iliad 1.4-5.
- δ132Δαιτρόςapportioner, carver, distributor… who prayed for a longer throat). Compare in any event Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.342C (8.28 Kaibel). For another of Timaeus' harsh slams at Aristotle and for some bibliography, see alpha 3930. [4] Ruled Syracuse 405-367 …
- δ1282Διοίσεινto bear through, to differ… may perhaps be seen in Menander fr. 304 Koerte (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.243A [6.42 Kaibel]), now 265 K.-A.: ... diafe/rei *xairefw=ntos ou)de\ gru=, "is not different in anything from Chaerephon, not even in the …
- δ1244Διώνυμοιfamous, renowned… was a parasite of Philip II of Macedon, mentioned by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.248D (6.53 Kaibel), and in the Gnomologium Vaticanum. (For the pluralisation of the name, here and in what follows, signifying 'the likes …
- δ589Διακόνιονdiakonion, flat-cake… in Pherecrates fr. 156 Kock (now 167 Kassel-Austin), preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.645A (14.53 Kaibel). [1] FGrH 270: Menecles of Barca, an historian of the C2 BCE (cf. epsilon 3029, kappa 1354); this is …