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Headword:
Thoinê
Adler number: theta,526
Translated headword: feast
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a meal, banqueting, food.
"[...] bearing a dangerous gaping hole of a hungry throat, as if [going] to a feast."[1]
Damascius [writes]: "[...] not causing the rich to be in the feast, nor accepting their gifts."[2]
Thoinê: trophê, euôchia, katabrôma. hôs epi thoinan chasma pherôn chalepon peinaleou pharungos. Damaskios: tous plousious ouk en thoinêi poioumenos, oude ta toutôn dôra prosiemenos.
Notes:
cf. generally
theta 524,
theta 525.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.218.3-4 (
Alcaeus), the dedication of a eunuch priest of Cybele (Kybele, cf.
kappa 2586) who escaped from a lion by beating his timbrels; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (9) and vol. II (24-26) and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 388,
gamma 158,
pi 952,
pi 2954,
tau 316, and
omega 89.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.20 Zintzen (236 Asmus, 20B Athanassiadi).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 21 November 2002@16:07:47.
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