He maintained that the divine name for "table" is θυωρός, or that which takes care of offerings.Cf. those passages from the Iliad in which a distinction is made between divine and human words for the same things.
ἔλεγέ τε ὅτι οἱ θεοὶ τὴν τράπεζαν θυωρὸν καλοῦσιν.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Divine and Human Words
Diogenes Laertius 1.119 (Pherecydes, tr. R.D. Hicks):