ἔδεσμα, ατος, τό,
(ἔδω) meat, food, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 73a, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 26.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, eatables, meats, [[ Batrachomyomachia 31, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 559b, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 82.1, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.55: _metaphorically_, οὐ γὰρ ἡδύσματι χρῆται ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἐδέσματι τοῖς ἐπιθέτοις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1406a19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—diminutive ἐδεσμάτιον, τό, Procl.ad [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 41. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]