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ἱκέτευμα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: hiketeuma

Principal Part: ἱκέτευμα ἱκέτευματος

Structure: ἱκετευματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a mode of supplication

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ Πέρσαις τῶν ἱκετευμάτων μέγιστον ἦν καὶ ἀπαραίτητον, εἰ πῦρ λαβὼν ἱκετεύων καὶ ἐν ποταμῷ βεβηκὼς ἀπειλοίη μὴ τυχὼν τὸ πῦρ, εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀφήσειν: (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 14 7:1)
  • ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν Φθίαν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ βασιλέως λέγουσιν ὑποθέσθαι τῷ Θεμιστοκλεῖ τὸ ἱκέτευμα τοῦτο καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑστίαν καθίσαι μετ αὐτοῦ: (Plutarch, , chapter 24 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mode of supplication

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

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