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καθαρμός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαρμός

Etym.: kaqai/rw

Sense

  1. a cleansing, purification, a means of purification, purifying sacrifice, atonement, expiation, an atonement, by purifying, avert, by purification, a purifying
  2. rites of initiation

Examples

  • εἰ γὰρ ὡσ θέλω καθαρμὸσ ὅδε πέσοι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, trochees33)
  • ὑπούλου καὶ διεφθαρμένησ καθαρμόσ. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 3 3:1)
  • φυγὴ δὲ μία καὶ καθαρμὸσ εἰσ δικαιοσύνην τέλειοσ αὐτάρκη καὶ ἀπροσδεᾶ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 167)
  • τὸν δὲ κύνα φαίη τισ ἄν, εἰ μὲν ἡ θυσία καθαρμόσ ἐστι, θύεσθαι καθαρσίῳ χρωμένων αὐτῷ· (Plutarch, chapter 21 7:4)
  • εἷσ σοὶ καθαρμόσ· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. rites of initiation

Related

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

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