Δορπία
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
English (LSJ)
ἡ, A the first day of the feast Apaturia, celebrated by public suppers in each phratria, personified in Philyll.8.2: πρόπεμπτα τῆς Δ. IG2.841b62; but τῆς ὁρτῆς τῇ δορπίῃ on the eve of the feast, Hdt. 2.48.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Δορπία: ἡ, ἡ πρώτη ἡμέρα τῆς ἑορτῆς τῶν Ἀπατουρίων, ἑορταζομένη διὰ κοινῶν δείπνων ἐν ἑκάστη φατρία, Herm. Pol. Ant. § 110. 10· ἀλλὰ τῆς ὁρτῆς τῇ δορπίῃ, κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν τῆς ἑορτῆς, Ἡρόδ. 2. 48, πρβλ. Schweigh εἰς Ἀθήν. 171D.
Spanish (DGE)
-ας, ἡ
• Alolema(s): jón. -ίη Hdt.2.48, IG 22.1237.62 (IV a.C.)
Dorpia n. del primer día de las Apaturias en Atenas πρόπεμπτα τῆς Δορπίης IG l.c., cf. Poll.6.102, Hsch., Apostol.3.31
•personif. como un personaje de comedia, Philyll.7
•de ahí τῆς ὁρτῆς τῇ δορπίῃ la víspera de la fiesta Hdt.l.c.
