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Headword: Daitos eïsês
Adler number: delta,128
Translated headword: of an equal banquet
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] from feasting divided equally.[1]
But Zenodotus[2] says [it means] "of good [feasting]," since nourishment is good for mankind. Since the first human beings, who did not have bountiful nourishment, snatched it by force and took it from those who had it, and along with disorder even murders took place: from this a)tasqali/a ["recklessness"] was named.[3] For in festivities [qali/a] the first men sinned. But later they apportioned [their food] and meals came into good order. From this also comes daitro/s ["carver"], and dai/s "feasting", and daitumo/nes ["banqueters"]. [Note] that dai/s is said about human beings, but not about wild animals. Zenodotus was ignorant of the meaning of this word when he said, "[Achilles' wrath] made [them] the booty for dogs and a banquet for birds."[4]
Greek Original:
Daitos eïsês: ex isou merizomenês euôchias. Zênodotos de tês agathês phêsin: epeidê hê trophê tôi anthrôpôi agathon. epeidê hoi prôtoi anthrôpoi, hois dê ou parên aphthonos hê trophê, biai hêrpazon kai aphêirounto tous echontas, kai meta tês akosmias eginonto kai phonoi: ex hôn lechthênai tên atasthalian. en gar tais thaliais hêmartanon ta prôta hoi anthrôpoi. husteron de dienemon, kai êlthen eis kosmon ta dorpa. enthen kai daitros: kai dais, hê euôchia: kai daitumones. hoti epi anthrôpôn legetai dais, epi de thêriôn ou. agnoôn de Zênodotos tês phônês tautês tên dunamin ephê: helôria teuche kunessin oiônoisi te daita.
Notes:
cf. generally delta 124, delta 126, delta 127, delta 129, delta 130, delta 131, delta 132 and for the adjective, epsilon 291.
[1] Likewise in other lexica, and cf. the scholia on Homer, Iliad 1.468, where this phrase occurs (web address 1).
[2] zeta 74. Evidently he thought the adjective was related to e)u/s rather than i)/sos.
[3] cf. alpha 4325, alpha 4326.
[4] All this material comes from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.12C-F (1.21 Kaibel); the last comment refers to a dispute over the correct reading at Homer, Iliad 1.4-5.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; food; mythology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 May 2004@00:04:15.
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