τράπεζ-α [τρᾰ], ης, ἡ,
Doric dialect τράπεσδα [
Refs 7th c.BC+]:—
table, especially
dining-table, eating-table, frequently in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. εἰσφέρειν, ἐπάγειν, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τ. εἰσῄρετο [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἴρειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξενίη τ. the hospitable
board, ἴστω Ζεύς. ξενίη τε τ. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅρκον μέγαν, ἅλας τε καὶ τράπεζαν [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἡ ξενικὴ τ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; δέξασθαι τραπέζῃ καὶ κοίτῃ entertain at bed and
board, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τράπεζαν Περσικὴν παρετίθετο he kept
a table in the Persian fashion, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἀλλοτρίαν τ. ἀποβλέπειν live at other men's
table, at their expense, [
Refs]; τὴν τ. ἀνατρέπειν upset the
table, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; proverbial of a spendthrift, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
table dedicated to the gods, on which meats and offerings were set out, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. Κυρίου, τ. δαιμονίων, [
NT]
2)
table, as implying what is upon it,
meal, ἄνομος τ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Συρακοσίων τ, proverbial of luxurious living, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Σικελικαὶ τ. proverbial cited in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; δεύτεραι τ. the second
course, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; compare τράγημα.
II)
money-changer's counter, ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἐπὶ τῶν τ. [
NT+5th c.BC+]; most frequently
bank, [
Refs], etc; ἡ ἐργασία ἡ τῆς τ. the right to operate the
bank, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐγγύη ἡ ἐπὶ τὴν τ. security given to the
bank, [
NT+4th c.BC+]
bankers, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατασκευάζεσθαι τράπεζαν set up a
bank, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; τῆς τ. ἀνασκευασθείσης the
bank having been broken, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; δημοσία τ. public
bank at Delos, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; in Egypt, [
Refs]; βασιλικὴ τ. in Egypt, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; χειριστὴς τῆς ἐν τῇ Πολέμωνος μερίδι τ. [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; opposed to ἰδιωτικὴ τ. [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
III)
any table or
flat surface on which a thing rests: as,
III.1)
cross bench in which the mast is fixed, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. δολωνική, see at {δολωνικός}.
III.2)
platform on which slaves were exposed for sale, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.3)
tablet or
slab with a relief or inscription, τ. χαλκῆ Oracle texts cited in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; at a tomb, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
III.4)
plinth of a statue, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
III.4.b) lamp-
stand, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
III.5)
nether millstone, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
III.6)
part of a torsion engine, probably the
plinth, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
III.7)
part of the liver, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
III.8)
shoulder-blade, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III.9)
grinding surface of the teeth,[
Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (The word is shortened from τετράπεζ; hence the question καὶ πόθεν ἐγὼ τρίπουν τ. λήψομα; as if this were an absurdity, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] —so τρίπεζα, τρέπεδδα (which see), of three-legged tables.)