Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Theoxenia

（θεοξένια, also θεοδαίσια, “entertainments given to the gods”). A festival celebrated in many parts of Greece in honour, not only of the principal local divinity, but of many others who were considered as his guests. Such was the feast held at Delphi in honour of Apollo in the month hence called Theoxenius (August). Of the manner of its celebration nothing is known. Distinguished men, such as Pindar and his descendants, were also invited to the sacrificial feast. Elsewhere other gods appeared as hosts at the feast, as the Dioscuri, the patrons of hospitality, in Paros and Agrigentum. From these god-feasts the Romans probably derived the custom of their lectisternia. See Lectisternium.