ἱερεύς: Difference between revisions

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|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῐ], έως</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-ῆος</b>, Cypr. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> -ῆϝος <span class="title">Inscr.Cypr.</span>59 H., ὁ, Att. pl. <b class="b3">ἱερῆς</b>: gen. sg. and pl. written <b class="b3">ἱερείως, ἱερείων</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PStrassb.</span>83.2</span>,<span class="bibl">9</span> (ii B.C.):—Ion. nom. ἱρεύς <span class="bibl">Il.5.10</span>, <span class="bibl">16.604</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.9.198</span>: Dor. ἱᾰρεύς <span class="title">IG</span> 4.1182, al. (gen. <b class="b3">ἰαρέος</b> ib.1580); acc. pl. τὸς ἱαρές <span class="title">Schwyzer</span> 236 (Cyrene); nom. pl. <b class="b3">οἱ ἱαρές</b> ibid.; nom. sg. ἱαρές <span class="title">GDI</span>4846 (Cyrene):— also ἱέρεως (Att. and proparox. acc. to <span class="bibl">Choerob. <span class="title">in Theod.</span>1.253</span>) <span class="title">SIG</span>1037.4 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.); gen. ἱέρεω <span class="title">IPE</span>12.32<span class="hiitalic">A</span>23, al. (Olbia, iii B.C.); dat. ἵρεῳ <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>692 (Chios, v. B.C.); acc. ἱέρεω <span class="title">Milet.</span> 1(7).203b3 (ii B.C.): ἱερής <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).115.1 (Tegea, iv/iii B.C.), cf. <span class="title">Inscr.Cypr.</span>100 H.:—Arc. ἱαρής <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).13.10 (iii B.C.): acc. <b class="b3">ἱερήν</b> ib.3.1 (Tegea, iv B.C.): (ἱερός):—<b class="b2">priest, sacrificer, diviner</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.1.62</span>, <span class="bibl">16.604</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>2.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.2</span>, <span class="bibl">And.1.124</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἐφ' ἱερέως</b>, as a date, <span class="title">SIG</span>332.1 (Potidaea, iv/iii B.C.), etc. (freq. unaspirated, ἐπ' ἰερέως <span class="title">IG</span>12(1).890, etc. (Rhodes)); of the Jewish High Priest, <span class="bibl">D.S.34</span>/<span class="bibl">5.1</span>; ἱ. ὁ μέγας <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Le.</span>21.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.2.591</span>; ἱ. ὁ χριστός <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Le.</span>4.5</span>; at Rome, = <b class="b2">pontifex</b>, Mon.Anc.Gr.6.9; <b class="b3">ἱ. ὁ μέγιστος</b>, = <b class="b2">pont. maximus</b>, <span class="bibl">D.S.27.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ἱ. τις ἄτας</b> <b class="b2">a minister</b> of woe, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>735</span> (lyr.); comically, λεπτοτάτων λήρων ἱερεῦ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>359</span>; <b class="b3">ἱ. Διονύσου</b>, of a winebibber, <span class="bibl">Eup.19</span>; ἱ. φιλοσοφίας <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Or.</span>52.42</span>.</span>

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