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δαίς , δαιτός, ἡ, （δαίω Β)
A.meal, banquet, δαὶς ἐΐση, duly shared, Il.15.95, etc.; δαὶς πίειρα sumptuous banquet, 19.179; sacrificial feast, “βωμὸς ἐδεύετο δαιτὸς ἐΐσης” 24.69; “δαῖτα θάλειαν” Hom.Fr.inc. 4 Kinkel (cf. Od.17.382); Θυέστου δαῖτα παιδείων κρεῶν the feast of Th. on . ., A.Ag.1242, cf. 1593: pl., Od.20.182, A.Ch.483: of beasts of prey, Il.24.43; [“τούτοις] παρέξω δαῖθ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ὧν ἐφερβόμην” S.Ph. 957.
2. meat, food, E.Cyc.245, cf. Od.18.279.
3. personified, S.Fr.605. Rare in Prose (exc. in Homeric allusions, Pl.Phdr.247a, etc.) as Hdt.1.133,211.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1242
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1593
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 483
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 245
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.133
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.95
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.43
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.382
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.279
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.182
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 4
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 247a
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 957
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.179
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.69
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 605
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