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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[potluck]], [[shared]] [[meal]], [[meal]] to which each [[contribute]]d his [[share]], picnic</b>, εἰλαπίνη ἠὲ [[γάμος]]; ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔρανος τάδε γ' ἐστίν <span class="bibl">Od.1.226</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">11.415</span> : metaph., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>177c</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[feast]], [[festival]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.38</span>; [[πολύθυτος]] ἔρανος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">P.</span>5.77</span>; [[wedding-banquet]], ib.<span class="bibl">12.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Pherecyd.11</span> J.; ἔρανον εἰς θεοὺς..ἐποίεις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>388</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[loan]] raised by contributions for the [[benefit]] of an [[individual]], bearing no [[interest]], but [[recoverable]] at [[law]], in [[instalment]]s, παρὰ τῶν φίλων ἔρανον συλλέξαι <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.2.9</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>22.9</span>; <b class="b3">κομισόμενος τὸν ἔρανον</b> [[recover]] the [[loan]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>196b34</span>; ἔρανον [[εἰσενεγκεῖν]] τινι <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>15.7</span>, <span class="bibl">Philem.213.14</span>; ἔρανον τινι εἰς τὰ [[λύτρα]] [[εἰσφέρειν]] <span class="bibl">D.53.8</span>; ἔρανος εἰς [[ἐλευθερία]]ν <span class="bibl">Id.59.31</span>, cf. <span class="title">GDI</span>2317 (Delph.), al.; ἔρανον [[ἀναλαμβάνειν]] <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span> 1165.16</span> (i B. C., with mention of interest); ἔρανος [[εἰκοσίμνως]] <span class="bibl">Lys.<span class="title">Fr.</span>19</span>; [[πεντακοσιόδραχμος]] <span class="title">SIG</span>1215.5 (Myconos); [[διτάλαντος|διτάλαντον]] εἶχες ἔρανον [δωρεὰν] παρά τινων <span class="bibl">D.18.312</span> : in plural, [[debt]]s thus [[contract]]ed, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>615</span> (prob.), <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Ath.</span>9</span>; τοὺς ἐράνους [[διενεγκεῖν]] = [[pay off]] such [[debt]]s, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.22</span>; <b class="b3">ἐράνους λέλοιπε</b> he has left [[repayment]]-[[instalment]]s [[unpaid]], <span class="bibl">D.27.25</span>; <b class="b3">ἔρανον συνεφήβοις ἀπενεγκεῖν</b> (cf. infr. III) <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">DMeretr.</span>7.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph, <b class="b3">τοὐράνου γάρ μοι μέτεστι· καὶ γὰρ ἄνδρας εἰσφέρω</b> (spoken by Lysistrata), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>651</span>; δεῖ τοῖς γονεῦσι τὸν ὡρισμένον ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ἔρανος καὶ παρὰ τῆς φύσεως καὶ παρὰ τοῦ νόμου δικαίως φέρειν <span class="bibl">D.10.40</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">21.101</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.10.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>927c</span>; [[κάλλιστον]] ἔρανον [τῇ πόλει] προϊέμενοι <span class="bibl">Th.2.43</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.1.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.2.553</span>, etc.: generally, [[favour]], [[service]], esp. one which brings a [[return]], [[κάλλιστον]] ἔρανον, δοὺς γὰρ ἀντιλάζυται <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>363</span>; ἔρανον [[ἀντιλαμβάνειν]] <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1332b40</span>; ἀποδοῦναι <span class="bibl">Alex.280</span>; ironically, [[τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι]] = '[[pay him back in his own coin]]', <span class="bibl">D.59.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> a [[permanent]] [[association]] apparently [[religious]] in character (cf. [[ἐρανιστής]]), <span class="title">IG</span>12(1).155.12 (Rhodes, ii B.C.), 22.1369 (Athens, ii A. D.); <b class="b3">ἔρανον συνάγειν Μηνὶ Τυράννῳ</b> ib.3.74; καλεῖται ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ ἔρανος καὶ [[θίασος]] <span class="bibl">Ath.8.362e</span>; functioning as a [[friendly society]], Plin.<span class="title">Ep.Trai.</span>92; it could apparently lend to a non-[[member]], ὅρος χωρίων ὑποκειμένων τῷ ἐ. καὶ τῷ ἀρχεράνῳ <span class="title">SIG</span>1198 (Amorgos, iii B. C.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1133</span>-<span class="bibl">6</span> (i B. C.).</span>

|ftr='''ἔρανος''': {éranos}<br />'''Grammar''': m.<br />'''Meaning''': [[Mahl auf gemeinschaftliche Kosten]], [[Freundesmahl]], [[Schmaus]] (Od., Pi. u. a.); [[Beisteuer]], [[Gesellschaftsbeitrag]], [[wohltätige Gesellschaft]] (att. hell. u. spät.).<br />'''Composita''' : Komp. [[ἐρανάρχης]] [[Vorsitzer eines [[ἔρανος]] mit -έω (Pap. u. a.), auch [[ἀρχέρανος]] = [[ἀρχερανιστής]] (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 232; 2, 111) mit -ίζω (Inschr.).<br />'''Derivative''': Davon [[ἐρανικός]] ‘auf einen ἔ. bezüglich’ und das Denominativum ἐρανιζω, -ομαι [[Beiträge einsammeln]], [[zusammenbetteln]] (att. hell. u. spät) mit [[ἐράνισις]] (Pl.), -ισμός (D. H.), [[ἐρανιστής]] ‘Teilnehmer oder Mitglied eines ἔ.’ (att. hell. u. spät; Fraenkel 1, 173f.), auch ἐρανεστής (achä.) nach [[κηδεστής]] u. a. (anders Fraenkel a. a. O. nach Schulze).<br />'''Etymology''' : Nicht sicher erklärt. Nach Brugmann IF 13, 155ff. zusammen mit [[ἔροτις]] [[Fest]] (äol. usw.) und [[ἑορτή]] (s. d.) zu [[ἦρα]] [[Gefallen]], [[Dienste]]; s. d. mit außergriechischen Anknüpfungen. Grundformen dann *ϝέρανος, *ϝέροτις.<br />'''Page''' 1,547-548