δεῖπνον, τό,
meal: in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] sometimes noonday meal, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.86 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes ={ἄριστον}, morning meal, [[ 2.381, 10.578, 19.171s q., 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.94s q., 500 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes ={δόρπον}, evening meal, [[ 17.176, 20.390s q] Refs].; later,the midday meal, σῖτον εἰδέναι διώρισα, ἄριστα, δεῖπνα, δόρπα θ᾽ αἱρεῖσθαι τρίτα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 182 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; later, the afternoon meal, dinner or supper, σοὶ δὲ μελήσει, ὅτανᾖ δεκάπουν τὸ στοιχεῖον, λιπαρῷ χωρεῖν ἐπὶ δ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 652: frequently in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 779, “El.” 203 (Lyric poetry); δ. Θυέστου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1008 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ δείπνου straight-way after the meal, ἀπὸ δ. αὐτοῦ θωρήσσοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.54, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.17 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; καλεῖν ἐπὶ δεῖπνον, κεκλῆσθαι ἐπὶ δ., [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 72, 119.2; δ. παρασκευάζειν 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 45, 172; παραθεῖναι [prev. author] 184; ποιεῖν 4th c.BC: Dionysius Comicus 2.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 11, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.12, 12.27. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 generally, food, provender, ἵπποισιν δεῖπνον δότε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.383; ὄρνισι δεῖπνον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 801 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κοράκεσσιν epigram cited in [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 19.17. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]