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Headword:
*dai/s
Adler number: delta,124
Translated headword: feast
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] festivities.[1]
And when [sc.
Homer] says "an abundant feast" [
dai=ta], they say that
di/aita is being said by a change of letter. But to say [it is derived] from
dai/sasqai ["to feast"] [is] rather forced.[2]
*dai/s: h( eu)wxi/a. kai\ *dai=ta qa/leian o(/te fhsi/, stoixei/ou metaqe/sei di/aita/n fasi le/gesqai. to\ de\ a)po\ tou= dai/sasqai le/gein, biaio/teron.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 1.225; cf.
delta 112,
delta 126,
delta 127,
delta 128.
[2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.24B (1.44 Kaibel), citing the Augustan-age scholar
Seleucus.
*dai/sasqai is an aorist middle infinitive, either from the verb
dai/numi ["I feast"] or
dai/w, which can mean "I feast" but which has a broader semantic sense of "divide, distribute". See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on this verb.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 December 2003@17:00:28.
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