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θοίν-η , Dor. θοίνα (later θοῖνα LXX Wi.12.6, perh. to be read in Epich.148.1), ἡ,
A.meal, feast, Hes.Sc.114, Hdt.1.119, 9.82, A.Fr.350.7, etc.: in pl., Id.Pr.530 (lyr.), B.Fr.18; “τὰς θ. κὰτ τὰν ὥραν ἀπάγεσθαι” Michel995D50; “θοίνῃς δὲ καὶ εἰλαπίνῃσι” Thgn. 239; ἐκ θοίνας after dinner, Epich.148.2; “εἰς θ. καλεῖν τινα” E.Ion 1140; “ἐπὶ θοίνην ἰέναι” Pl.Phdr.247a; παρακαλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν θ. Arist.Fr. 549; σκευαζομένης θ. Pl.Tht.178d, cf. Arist.Pol.1282a22; “τραπέζας ἱερὰς πρεπούσης θ. γεμίζων” OGI383.146 (Commagene, i B.C.); ἐν θ. λέγειν τινά to count as a guest, and generally to take into account, Pl.Lg.649a: metaph., Id.Sph.251b, Phdr.236e, X.Cyr.4.2.39.
II. food, “πτανοῖς” E.Ion 504, cf. Tim.Pers.150; “θ. παντοδαπή” Parth.12.2.
2. feeding upon, c. gen., “τῶν σαρκῶν” Porph.Abst.2.47. (Cf. θῶσθαι.)
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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