τράπεζ-α [τρᾰ], ης, ἡ,
Doric dialect τράπεσδα [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 74b ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:— table, especially dining-table, eating-table, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, Τηλεμάχοιο τ., ἐμὴ τ., 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.333, 447, compare “IG” 12.330.4, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 518.2; τ. παραθεῖναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.139, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 171; παρέκειτο τ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.476 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. εἰσφέρειν, ἐπάγειν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1216, 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 2 (but ἐσῄρετο is probably conjecture)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τ. εἰσῄρετο [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 518; τ. ἀφαιρεῖν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.1 (_passive_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἴρειν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 273, compare 451; ἐκφέρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξενίη τ. the hospitable board, ἴστω Ζεύς.. ξενίη τε τ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.158, compare 21.28; ᾔσχυνε ξενίαν τ. κλοπαῖσι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 401 (Lyric poetry), compare 701 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅρκον μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 96, cf. Wilcken “Chr.” 11.58 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἡ ξενικὴ τ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.224; τοὺς τῆς πόλεως ἅλας καὶ τὴν δημοσίαν τ. [prev. author] 2.22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δέξασθαι τραπέζῃ καὶ κοίτῃ entertain at bed and board, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.20; κοίτης μεθέξουσα καὶ τραπέζης μόνον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 13; ἐπὶ τὰς αὐτὰς τ. ἰέναι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τράπεζαν Περσικὴν παρετίθετο he kept a table in the Persian fashion, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.130; τ. κοσμεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.6, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἀλλοτρίαν τ. ἀποβλέπειν live at other men's table, at their expense, [[ [prev. author] “An.” 7.2.33 ] Refs]; τὴν τ. ἀνατρέπειν upset the table, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.198 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; proverbial of a spendthrift, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.130 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; table dedicated to the gods, on which meats and offerings were set out, [[ “IG” 12.190.4, 840.19, 22.1245.6, 1534.163, 1933.2, 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.2; τ. ἱερά “PCair.Zen.” 708 (3rd c.BC); ἐπὶ τὴν τ. τῶν Διοσκόρων [prev. work] 569.24 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. Κυρίου, τ. δαιμονίων, [[ NT.1Cor.10.21. ] NT]