A.by dividing or distributing, Zonar δαιτρ-εύω , divide, esp. cut up meat, δαιτρεῦσαί τε καὶ ὀπτῆσαι to cut up and roast it, Od.15.323; “ἂν δὲ . . ἵστατο δαιτρεύσων” to carve, 14.433; τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐς δῆμον ἔδωκε δαιτρεύειν to cut up for distribution among the people, Il.11.705, cf. 688; ἵππους δαίτρευον, of the Amazons, A.R.2.1176; “τὰ πιότερα τῶν προβάτων” Them. Or.13.171c; of animals, devour prey, Opp.H.2.294: —Med.,ib.606, Nonn.D.5.363, al.:—Pass., Lyc.160,etc. -όν, τό, one's portion, “δαιτρὸν πίνειν” Il.4.262.
δαιτρ-ευτῶς , Adv.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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