饗宴

FEASTきょうえん[/fiːst/]名詞

解説

祭典。

宗教的祝典で、暴食と飲酒を伴うことが多く、禁欲で知られた聖人を称える場でもそうなる。
カトリックでは移動祝日と固定祝日があるが、祝う側は満腹になるまで「動かない」。

古代には者のための饗宴があり、ギリシャのネメセイア、アステカやペルー人、現代では中国人に人気がある。
古代も現代も者は小食だと信じられていた。

ローマには「九日祭」があり、リウィウスによれば天から石が落ちた時に行われた。

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Original

A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.

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