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δαίς?

Noun; Transliteration: dais

Principal Part: δαίς

Etym.: δαίω to kindle

Sense

  1. a fire-brand, pine-torch
  2. pine-wood

Examples

  • σὲ δὲ νῦν ἀναξιμόλπου Οὐρανίας ὕμνος ἕκατι νίκ[ας Ἀριστομένειον ὦ ποδάνεμον τέκος, γεραίρει προδόμοις ἀοι- δαῖς, ὅτι στάδιον κρατή- σας Κέον εὐκλέϊξας. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 6 2:1)
  • αἰεὶ δ ἡμῖν δαίς τε φίλη κίθαρίς τε χοροί τε εἵματά τ ἐξημοιβὰ λόετρά τε θερμὰ καὶ εὐναί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 14 3:3)
  • σὺ δὲ ἡμῖν δίκαιος εἶ λέγειν, ὁ καὶ τῶν Ὁμηρικῶν μεμνημένος τούτων τίς δαίς, τίς δὲ ὅμιλος ὅδ ἔπλετο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 641)
  • ὥστε ἡ τροφὴ δαὶς ἐπὶ τῷ δαίεσθαι λέγεται ὅ ἐστι διαμοιρᾶσθαι ἐπ ἴσης: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 21 2:2)
  • διὸ καὶ μόνου τούτου ἡ τροφὴ δαίς: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 21 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. pine-wood

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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