* παρ-οψίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(< παρά, ὄψον; v.s. ὀψάριον),
1. a side-dish of dainties (Xen., al.).
2. In Comic poets and late prose, the dish itself on which the dainties are served: Mt 23:25, 26 (In this sense it is condemned by the Atticists; v. Rutherford, NPhr., 265 f.)†