θειλόπεδον
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
τό,
A sunny spot in the vineyard where grapes were dried, Od.7.123, AP6.169, 9.586 (Comet.), Sch.E.Or.1492; θειλοπέδου τρόπον Dsc.1.32; v. εἱλόπεδον.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1191] τό, der den Sonnenstrahlen (εἵλη) ausgesetzte Platz, wo man Etwas trocknen kann, Trockenplatz; bei Hom. nur Od. 7, 123, ἀλωῆς ἕτερον μὲν θειλόπεδον λευρῷ ἐνὶ χώρῳ τέρσεται ἠελίῳ, wo die Trauben trocknen in der Sonne; vgl. Ep. ad. 130 (VI, 169); Ἠχὼ γὰρ δήεις τοῖσδ' ἐνὶ θειλοπέδοις Comet. 3 (IX, 586); bei Diosc., wie es scheint, auch geflochtene Gestelle zum Trocknen der Trauben.
