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|lshtext=<b>daps</b>: or dăpis, dăpis (nom. [[daps]] obsol. Paul. Diac. p. 68, 3: dapis, Juvenc. ap. Auct. de gen. nom. p. 78.—The<br /><b>I</b> gen. pl. and dat. [[sing]]. do not [[occur]], [[but]] are supplied by [[epulae]], [[cena]], [[convivium]], q. v.), f. [[stem]], dap-, Gr. [[δαπάνη]], [[expense]]: cf. [[δεῖπνον]]; R. da-, Gr. [[δαίω]], to [[distribute]]; Sanscr. dapajami, to [[cause]] to [[divide]], a [[solemn]] [[feast]] for [[religious]] purposes, a [[sacrificial]] [[feast]] ([[before]] [[beginning]] to [[till]] the [[ground]]; the Greek προηρόσια, made in [[honor]] of [[some]] [[divinity]], in [[memory]] of departed friends, etc. Thus [[distinguished]] from [[epulae]], a [[meal]] of [[any]] [[kind]]: [[convivium]], a [[meal]] or [[feast]] for [[company]]; [[epulum]], a [[formal]] or [[public]] [[dinner]], v. h. v.).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: dapem pro bubus piro florente facito... [[postea]] dape facta serito [[milium]], [[panicum]], [[alium]], lentim, [[Cato]] R. R. 131 and 132; id. ib. 50 fin.: pro grege, an [[offering]] for the [[protection]] of the [[flock]], Tib. 1, 5, 28; Liv. 1, 7 ad fin.: [[ergo]] obligatam redde Jovi dapem, Hor. Od. 2, 7, 17: [[nunc]] Saliaribus Ornare [[pulvinar]] deorum Tempus erat dapibus, id. ib. 1, 37, 4: [[sollemnis]] dapes et tristia dona, Verg. A. 3, 301.<br /><b>II</b> Transf. by the poets and [[post]]-Augustan [[prose]]-writers [[beyond]] the [[sphere]] of [[religion]], and used of [[every]] (esp. [[rich]], [[sumptuous]]) [[meal]], a [[feast]], [[banquet]], in the [[sing]]. and plur. (in Verg. [[passim]], in Tibul. in this signif. [[only]] plur.).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: ne cum tyranno [[quisquam]]... eandem vescatur dapem, Att. ap. Non. 415, 25 (v. 217 Ribbeck): quae haec [[daps]] est? qui [[festus]] [[dies]]? Liv. Andr. ap. Prisc. p. 752 P. (transl. of Hom. Od. 1, 225: τίς δαΐς, τίς δὲ [[ὅμιλος]] ὅδ ἔπλετο); so Catull. 64, 305; Hor. Od. 4, 4, 12; id. Epod. 5, 33; id. Ep. 1, 17, 51: of a [[simple]], [[poor]] [[meal]], Ov. H. 9, 68; 16, 206. Opp. to [[wine]]: [[nunc]] dape, [[nunc]] posito mensae nituere Lyaeo, Ov. F. 5, 521; cf. so in plur., id. M. 8, 571; Verg. A. 1, 706.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: Tib. 1, 5, 49; 1, 10, 8; Verg. E. 6, 79; id. G. 4, 133; id. A. 1, 210 et saep.; Hor. Od. 1, 32, 13; id. Epod. 2, 48; Ov. M. 5, 113; 6, 664; Tac. A. 14, 22 et saep.: humanae, [[human]] [[excrement]], Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 51.

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