And Plato, in his Sophist, and Epicrates of Ambracia (and this last is a poet of the middle comedy), in his Amazons, says—
For these men seem to me to have had their supper (δεδειπνάναι)
In capital season.
And, on the same principle, Aristophanes has given us the form ἠρίσταμεν, in his Men Frying—
We've drank our fill, my men, and well have dined (ἠπίσταμεν).
And Hermippus, in his Soldiers, says—
To dine (ἀριστάναι), and come to this man's house.
And Theopompus, in his Callæschrus, says—
We've dined (ἠρίσταμεν);—for I must this discourse cut short.
But, in his Politician, Antipho has used the word καταριστᾶν, saying—
When any one has all consumed in dinners (κατηρίστηκεν)
His own estate, and that of all his family.