ἱκετήριος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=poet. ἱκτήριος, α, ον, as Adj. in the latter form only, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[of]] or [[fit for suppliants]], <b class="b3">ἱ. θησαυρός</b>, of hair offered to a god, <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Aj.</span>1175</span>; κλάδοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>3</span>; [[ἱκτήριοι]],= [[ἱκέται]], ib.<span class="bibl">327</span>; <b class="b3">φωτῶν ἱκτήρια</b>, = [[φῶτας ἱκτηρίους]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OC</span>923</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[ἱκετηρία]], poet. [[ἱκτηρία]], Ion. [[ἱκετηρίη]] (sc. [[ῥάβδος]]), ἡ, <b class="b2">olive-branch which the suppliant held in his hand</b> as a symbol of his condition, λευκοστεφεῖς ἱκτηρίας <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>192</span>; <b class="b3">ἱκετηρίην λαβεῖν, φέρειν</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.51</span>, <span class="bibl">7.141</span>; ἱκετηρίαν ἔχειν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>383</span>; καταθεῖναι ἐν τῷ Ἐλευσινίῳ <span class="bibl">And.1.110</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>1.9</span> (iv B.C.); esp. of petitions laid before the Athenian people, <b class="b3">ἱ. θεῖναι</b> And.l.c., <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>43.6</span> (less correctly θέσθαι <span class="bibl">Poll.8.96</span>, wh. is a later use, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>2666.6 (Samos)); ὑπὲρ θυγατρὸς ἱ. τιθεμένη <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>326.3</span> (iii A.D.); <b class="b3">ἱ. ἔθηκεν παρ' ὑμῖν</b>,= <b class="b3">ἱκέτευσεν ὑμᾶς</b>, <span class="bibl">D.18.107</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">24.12</span>; ὑπὲρ τοῦ μισθοῦ ἱ. θεῖναι εἰς τὴν βουλήν <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.104</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.15</span>; later <b class="b3">ἱ. πέμπειν, προβάλλεσθαι</b>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Pomp.</span>28</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span>3.26</span>; <b class="b3">ἱκετηρίας προσενέγκας, ἱκετηρίαν προσάγειν</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span>5.7</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>71 i 3</span> (iv A.D.): metaph., <b class="b3">ἱκετηρίαν δὲ γόνασιν ἐξάπτω σέθεν τὸ σῶμα τοὐμόν</b>, where the suppliant represents herself as the olive-branch, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IA</span>1216</span>; νομίζετε τὸν παῖδα τουτονὶ ἱκετηρίαν προκεῖσθαι <span class="bibl">D.43.83</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> = [[ἱκεσία]], v.l. in <span class="bibl">Isoc.8.138</span> (pl.), cf. <span class="bibl">Plb.3.112.8</span> (pl.), Jul.[[ad Ath]].275c, <span class="bibl">Hld.7.7</span>.</span>