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πανδαισία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πανδαισία

Structure: πανδαισι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: dai/s

Sense

  1. a complete banquet, a banquet at which nothing is wanting

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὦ Πόσειδον ὡσ καλὸν τὸ στῖφοσ αὐτῶν φαίνεται καὶ πυκνὸν καὶ γοργὸν ὥσπερ μᾶζα καὶ πανδαισία. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, trochees6)
  • γρῆυσ οὐδὲ πένησ καὶ ἰδιώτησ ἀλλὰ καὶ παχυσκελὴσ ἀλετρὶσ πρὸσ μύλην κινουμένη καὶ οἰκότριβεσ καὶ θῆτεσ ὑπὸ γήθουσ καὶ χαρμοσύνησ ἀναφέρονται, πλουσίοισ δὲ καὶ βασιλεῦσιν ἑστιάσεισ καὶ πανδαισίαι τινὲσ πάρεισιν ἀεί· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 10:1)
  • "ῥοδωνιὰν καλῶ μὲν τὴν λοπάδα ταύτην ἐγώ ἐσκεύασται δ’ οὕτωσ, ἵνα καὶ ἥδυσμα στεφανωτικὸν μὴ μόνον ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ λαβὼν σχῇσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔνδον σεαυτοῦ καὶ πανδαισίᾳ τὸ σωμάτιον πᾶν ἑστιάσῃσ, ῥόδα τὰ εὐοσμότατα ἐν ἴγδει τρίψασ ἐπέβαλον ἐγκεφάλουσ ὀρνίθων τε καὶ χοίρων ἑφθοὺσ σφόδρα ἐξινιασθέντασ καὶ τῶν ᾠῶν τὰ χρυσᾶ, μεθ’ ἃ ἔλαιον, γάρον, πέπερι, οἶνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 70 3:1)

Related

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

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