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ἱερόθυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱερόθυτος ἱερόθυτον

Structure: ἱεροθυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w

Sense

  1. offered to a god, from the sacrifices

Examples

  • ἀποκεκλῄκαμεν διογενεῖσ θεοὺσ μηκέτι τὴν ἐμὴν διαπερᾶν πόλιν, μηδέ <γέ> τιν’ ἱερόθυτον ἀνὰ δάπεδον ἔτι τῇδε βροτῶν θεοῖσι πέμπειν καπνόν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 11)
  • ἐὰν δέ τισ ὑμῖν εἴπῃ Τοῦτο ἱερόθυτόν ἐστιν, μὴ ἐσθίετε δι’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν μηνύσαντα καὶ τὴν συνείδησιν· (PROS KORINQIOUS A, chapter 8 74:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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