προστρόπαιος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Dor. [[ποτιτρόπαιος]] (A.''Supp.''362, ''Eu.''176, both lyr.), ον, ([[προστροπή]]) prop.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[turning oneself towards]]: hence,<br><span class="bld">1</span> of one who has incurred pollution by committing a [[crime]] and [[turn]]s to a [[god]] or [[man]] to [[obtain]] [[purification]], [[suppliant for purification]], τὸν προστρόπαιον, τὸν ἱκέτην S.''Ph.''930, cf. A.''Supp.''362, ''Eu.''234,445, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]'' 1173, E.''Heracl.''1015, etc.: as adjective, <b class="b3">ἕδραν ἔχοντα π.</b> A.''Eu.''41; προστρόπαιοι λιταί [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''1309.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[suppliant for vengeance]], A.''Ch.''286, ''Ag.'' 1587, Antipho 2.3.10.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of one who has not yet been purified after committing [[crime]], [[polluted person]], E.''HF''1259; <b class="b3">προστρόπαιος τῆς πόλεως</b> [[bringing pollution]] on the [[city]], prob. in Eup.120; αὑτοῦ π., μὴ γὰρ δὴ τῆς πόλεως Aeschin.2.158.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of pollution incurred, <b class="b3">π. αἷμα</b> blood [[that cries for vengeance]], [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]'' 1260, ''HF''1161; οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν π. καταλείψει Antipho 3.4.9: neut. as [[substantive]], [[guilt]], προστρόπαιον ἑαυτοῖς προσέθεντο D.C.42.3.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Pass. (= <b class="b3">ᾧ ἄν τις προστρέποιτο δεόμενος</b>, Eust.1807.11), the [[god]] [[to whom the murdered person turns]] for [[vengeance]], [[avenger]], <b class="b3">οἱ τῶν θανόντων π.</b> Antipho 4.1.4, cf. 4.2.8, Plb.23.10.2 (pl.), Paus.2.18.2.