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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

  • ταῦτ’ ἐπαινέσασ ὁ Σύλλασ προσεῖπε περὶ τῶν Πυθαγορικῶν, ὡσ μάλιστα μὲν ἐγεύοντο τῶν ἱεροθύτων ἀπαρξάμενοι τοῖσ θεοῖσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:1)
  • ἱέρεια δέ σφισίν ἐστιν ἡ δρῶσα, σὺν δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ τῶν ἱεροθυτῶν καλουμένων ὁ νεώτατοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 42 15:1)

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

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