ἱκετήριος: Difference between revisions

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