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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

  • ἑορτήν, ὦ Πολύστρατε, καὶ πανδαισίαν ἐπαγγέλλεισ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 15:7)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ πολὺσ ὀντωσ λόγοσ συμποσίων πέρι διήντληται,1 ὦ Τιμόκρατεσ, ἐν τοῖσ πρὸ τούτων, παρελίπομεν δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ χρησιμώτατα καὶ οὐ βαροῦντα τὴν ψυχήν, ὠφελοῦντα δὲ καὶ τρέφοντα κατὰ πανδαισίαν, ἅπερ ὁ θεῖοσ Ὅμηροσ παρεισήγαγε, μνημονεύσω καὶ τὰ περὶ τούτων λεχθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ πάντα ἀρίστου Μασουρίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 51)
  • πανδαισίαν εὑρόντα Κύλωνοσ τοῦ Κροτωνιάτου εἰσ Μεταπόντιον ὑπεξελθεῖν κἀκεῖ τὸν βίον καταστρέψαι ἀσιτίᾳ, μὴ βουλόμενον περαιτέρω ζῆν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 40:4)

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

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