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Headword: Δαιταλεῖς
Adler number: delta,125
Translated headword: feasters
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Banqueters and club-members and symposiasts and those such as feast together. Thus Aristophanes [uses this word].[1]
"The king granted an after-dinner show to the feasters as if it were something noteworthy, and this he showed."[2]
Greek Original:
Δαιταλεῖς: δαιτυμόνες καὶ θιασῶται καὶ συμπόται καὶ οἷον συνδαιταλεῖς. οὕτως Ἀριστοφάνης. ἐπιδείπνιον ὁ βασιλεὺς θέαν τοῖς δαιταλεῦσιν ὥσπερ ἀξιόλογον χαριζόμενος, τοῦτ' ἐδείκνυεν.
Notes:
[1] Daitaleis is the title of a lost play by Aristophanes (staged 427 BCE).
[2] Theophylactus Simocatta 5.5.9.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; food; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 December 2003@17:11:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 December 2003@05:44:24.
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