προστρόπαιος: Difference between revisions

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