See also:

• PARASITE (From Gr. irapa, beside, Tiros food)

PARASITE (From Gr. irapa, beside, Tiros See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food)  , literally " See also:

• MESS (an adaptation of O. Fr. mes, mod. mets; Ital. messo; derived from the Late Lat. missum, past participle of mittere " to send or place in position ")

mess-See also:

• MATE (a corruption of make, from O. Eng. gemaca, a " comrade ")
• MATE, or PARAGUAY TEA

mate," a See also:

• TERM

term originally conveying no See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of reproach or contempt, as in later times . The See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early parasites may be divided into two classes, religious and See also:

• CIVIL

civil . The former were assistants of the priests, their See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty being to collect the See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn dues which were contributed by the farmers of the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple lands or which came in from other See also:

• SOURCES

sources (See also:

• ATHENAEUS

Athenaeus vi . 235; See also:

• POLLUX, JULIUS
• POLLUX, or POLLUCITE

Pollux vi . 35) . Considerable obscurity exists as to their other functions, but they seem to have been charged with providing See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food for the visitors to the temples, with the care of certain offerings, and with the arrangement of the sacrificial banquets . In See also:

• ATTICA

Attica the parasites appear to have been confined to certain demes (Acharnae, Diomeia), and were appointed by the demes to which the temples belonged . The " civil " parasites were a class of persons who received invitations to dine in the See also:

• PRYTANEUM

prytaneum and subsequently in the See also:

• THOLOS (Bo11os)

tholos) as distinguished from those who had the right to dine there ex officio . An entirely different meaning (" sponger ") became attached to the word from the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character introduced into the See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle and New See also:

• COMEDY

Comedy, first by See also:

• ALEXIS
• ALEXIS, WILLIBALD

Alexis, and firmly established by See also:

• DIPHILUS

Diphilus . The chief See also:

• OBJECT

object of this class of parasites was a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• DINNER

dinner, for which they were ready to submit to almost any humiliation . Numerous examples occur in the comedies of See also:

• PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (originally perhaps MACCUS; cf. Asin. Prol. 11)

Plautus; and See also:

• ALCIPHRON

Alciphron and Athenaeus (vi . 236 sqq.) give instances of the insults they had to put up with at the hands of both See also:

• HOST

host and guests .

Some of them played the See also:

• PART

part of professional jesters (like the later buffoons and See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court See also:

• FOOLS, FEAST OF (Lat. festum stultorum, fatuorum, follorum, Fr. fete des fous)

fools), and kept collections of witticisms ready for use at their patrons' table; others relied upon flattery, others again condescended to the most degrading devices (See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch, De adulatore, 23: De educatione puerorum, 17) . Theterm See also:

• PARASITE (From Gr. irapa, beside, Tiros food)

parasite, from meaning a " hanger-on," has been transferred to any living creature which lives on another one . See See also:

• JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS) (c. 60-140)

Juvenal v . 17o with J . E . B . See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

Mayor's See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note, and the exhaustive See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by M . H . Meier in See also:

• ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL (1766–1828)

Ersch and See also:

• GRUBER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1774-1851)

Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie .