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Headword:
*dai/nu
Adler number: delta,120
Translated headword: feast
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] entertain sumptuously.[1]
Homer [writes]: "feast a feast for the elders."[2] Also [sc. attested is]
dainu/menos ["one who is being feasted"], [meaning one who is] being entertained sumptuously.[3]
*dai/nu: eu)w/xei. *(/omhros: dai/nu dai=ta ge/rousi. kai\ *dainu/menos, eu)wxou/menos.
Notes:
See also related entries:
delta 124,
delta 125,
delta 126,
delta 127,
delta 128,
delta 129.
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 23.29 (where the headword imperative occurs).
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 9.70 (web address 1 below).
[3] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.386 (where the accusative plural of this participle occurs). Note that both Greek terms used in the second part can be either middle ('feasting on') or passive ('being feasted'); an English translation cannot render both meanings.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 July 2002@11:16:08.
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