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Θέλομεν καλῶς ζῆν πάντες, ἀλλ' οὐ δυνάμεθα → Bene vivere omnes volumus, at non possumus → Gut leben wollen wir alle, doch wir können es nicht

Menander, Monostichoi, 236
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Transliteration A: Hekátē Transliteration B: Hekatē Transliteration C: Ekati Beta Code: *(eka/th

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], ἡ, (ἕκᾰτος)

   A Hecate, lit. she who works her will, Hes.Th. 411, h.Cer.25,52, E.Fr.955, etc. ; Ἑ. φωσφόρος Ar.Fr.594a, E.Fr. 968.    b v. ἕκατος.    II Ἑκάτης δεῖπνον Hecate's dinner, a meal set out by rich persons at the foot of her statue ἐν τριόδοις on the 30th day of each month, when it became a sort of dole for beggars and paupers, Ar.Pl.594 et Sch. adloc., cf. Plu.2.280c, 290d, AB247 : hence, as it consisted of offal, Ἑκαταῖα κατεσθίειν, of a rapscallion, D.54.39, cf. Luc.DMort.1.1.