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Headword:
Δαίς
Adler number: delta,124
Translated headword: feast
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Festivities.[1]
And when [sc.
Homer] says "an abundant feast", they say that
diaita is being said by a change of letter. But to say [it is derived] from
daisasthai ["to feast"] [is] rather forced.[2]
Δαίς: ἡ εὐωχία. καὶ Δαῖτα θάλειαν ὅτε φησί, στοιχείου μεταθέσει δίαιτάν φασι λέγεσθαι. τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ δαίσασθαι λέγειν, βιαιότερον.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 1.225; cf.
delta 112,
delta 126,
delta 127,
delta 128.
[2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophistae 1.24B (citing
Seleucus).
daisasthai is an aorist middle infinitive, either from the verb
dainumi ["to feast"] or
daiô, which can mean "to feast" but which has a broader semantic sense of "to divide, distribute". See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on this verb.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 December 2003@17:00:28.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (modified translation; x-refs; cosmetics) on 17 December 2003@05:39:25.
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