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περιρραντήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιρραντήριον περιρραντήριου

Structure: περιρραντηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from perirrai/nw

Sense

  1. an utensil for besprinkling, a vessel for lustral water
  2. the parts, sprinkled with lustral water

Examples

  • θέμενοι δὲ βωμοὺσ καὶ προρρήσεισ καὶ περιρραντήρια προσάγουσι τὰσ θυσίασ, βοῦν μὲν ἀροτῆρα ὁ γεωργόσ, ἄρνα δὲ ὁ ποιμὴν καὶ αἶγα ὁ αἰπόλοσ, ὁ δέ τισ λιβανωτὸν ἢ πόπανον, ὁ δὲ πένησ ἱλάσατο τὸν θεὸν κύσασ μόνον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δεξιάν. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 12:1)
  • καὶ πίθουσ τε ἀργυρέουσ τέσσερασ ἀπέπεμψε, οἳ ἐν τῷ Κορινθίων θησαυρῷ ἑστᾶσι, καὶ περιρραντήρια δύο ἀνέθηκε, χρύσεόν τε καὶ ἀργύρεον, τῶν τῷ χρυσέῳ ἐπιγέγραπται Λακεδαιμονίων φαμένων εἶναι ἀνάθημα, οὐκ ὀρθῶσ λέγοντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 51 4:3)

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

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