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Headword: *)/eranos
Adler number: epsilon,2893
Translated headword: pot-luck meal; philanthropic loan; loan-association
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] dining from a common [fund].[1]
Or injunction, contribution; or collection; or [something] more serious.[2]
Greek Original:
*)/eranos: h( e)k koinou= e(sti/asis. h)\ e)ntolh/, ei)sfora/: h)\ sullogh/: h)\ spoudaio/teron.
Notes:
[1] (cf. generally epsilon 2888 etc.) This gloss has no equivalent in other lexica.
[2] The primary gloss of the entry having covered the first meaning of eranos listed by LSJ s.v., this supplementary paragraph moves to meanings II and III there (for which again cf. epsilon 2892). This time other lexica do have the same gloss.
Reference:
Paul Millett, Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens (Cambridge 1991) 153-9 and passim
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 July 2003@22:16:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented headword; modified translation; added notes, keywords, bibliography) on 8 July 2003@04:23:57.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 25 October 2012@05:29:50.
David Whitehead (expansions to notes) on 5 February 2016@06:00:46.

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