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δειπν-έω , fut.
A.“-ήσω” Ar.Pax1084, X.Cyr.5.3.35, “-ήσομαι” D.S.11.9, Gal.11.6: aor. ἐδείπνησα, Ep. “δείπνησα” Od.14.111, etc.: pf. “δεδείπνηκα” Ar.Ec. 1133, etc.; Att. 1pl. “δεδείπναμεν” Alex.109, Eub.91; inf. “δεδειπνάναι” Ar.Fr.464,249,Pl.Com.144: plpf. “ἐδεδειπνήκεσαν” Antipho 1.18; Ep. “δεδειπνήκειν” Od.17.359:—make a meal, Hom. (v. δεῖπνον): in Att. always, take the chief meal, dine, once in Trag., “δειπνεῖν” E.Fr.894 (dub. l.); δ. τὸ ἄριστον make breakfast serve as dinner, X.Cyr.1.2.11; δ. παρά τινι with one, Antipho 1.18; [ἐν πρυτανείῳ] And.1.45.
2. c. acc., δ. ἄρτον make a meal on bread, Hes.Op.442; “δ. μοσχίον” Ephipp.15.13; “κοτύλην μίαν” Alex.221.17; “ξίφη” Mnesim.7; δ. τἀλλότρια, of parasites, freq. in Com., Theopomp.34, Eub.72, etc.; also “δ. ἀπό τινος” Ar.Pl.890.
II. Act., entertain, “τινάς” Milet.7.68, Inscr.Cos131.
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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