δ589Διακόνιον
diakonion, flat-cake
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: "whenever Athenians perform the so-called eiresione to Apollo, playing a lyre and a cymbal…
Διακόνιον· οἱ μὲν τὴν τοῦ πλακοῦντος κρηπῖδα, Μενεκλῆς δὲ ἐν τῷ Γλωσσοκόμῳ ταῦτα εἴρηκε περὶ αὐτοῦ· Ἀθηναῖοι τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὴν καλουμένην εἰρεσιώνην ὅταν ποιῶσι, πλήττοντες λύραν τε…