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καθάρσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθάρσιος καθάρσιον

Structure: καθαρσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kaqai/rw

Sense

  1. cleansing, purifying
  2. cleansing or purifying from, purifying
  3. a purifying sacrifice, purification

Examples

  • τὴν πήραν ἥκειν θέρμων τε πολλῶν καὶ εἴ που εὑρ́οι ἐν τῇ τριόδῳ Ἑκάτησ δεῖπνον κείμενον ἢ ᾠὸν ἐκ καθαρσίου ἤ τι τοιοῦτον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)
  • ἄφθογγον εἶναι τὸν παλαμναῖον νόμοσ, ἔστ’ ἂν πρὸσ ἀνδρὸσ αἵματοσ καθαρσίου σφαγαὶ καθαιμάξωσι νεοθήλου βοτοῦ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:8)
  • παρελθὼν δὲ οὗτοσ ἐσ τὰ Κροίσου οἰκία κατὰ νόμουσ τοὺσ ἐπιχωρίουσ καθαρσίου ἐδέετο κυρῆσαι, Κροῖσοσ δέ μιν ἐκάθηρε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 35 2:2)
  • πρὸσ αὐτῷ δέ ἐστιν Ἀγνώστων θεῶν βωμὸσ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Καθαρσίου Διὸσ καὶ Νίκησ καὶ αὖθισ Διὸσ ἐπωνυμίαν Χθονίου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. cleansing

  2. cleansing or purifying from

Related

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

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