Κάβειροι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰ], οἱ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">the Cabeiri</b>, divinities worshipped especially in Lemnos, Samothrace, and Boeotia, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>74b</span>Schr., <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.51</span>, <span class="bibl">3.37</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.10.3.15</span>, etc.; at Miletus, <span class="bibl">Nic.Dam.52J.</span>, <span class="title">Milet.</span> (v. infr.), <span class="title">BCH</span>1.288; title of play by Aeschylus, <span class="bibl">Ath.10.428f</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.303</span>: sg., Κάβειρος Pi. l.c.; freq. in Boeotian Inscrr. (written <b class="b3">-βιρ-</b>), <span class="title">IG</span>7.2457, al., cf. <span class="title">AP</span>6.245 (Diod.), <span class="bibl">Q.S.1.267</span>: Καβειρίδες <b class="b3">Νύμφαι</b>, and Καβειρώ, ἡ, <b class="b2">the sisters</b> and <b class="b2">mother of the Cabeiri</b>, <span class="bibl">Acus.20J.</span>, <span class="bibl">Pherecyd. 48</span> J.:—Adj. Καβειρικός, ή, όν, fem. Καβειριάς, άδος, <span class="title">Cabeiric</span>, St. Byz.:—also Καβειραῖος, α, ον, Id., <span class="bibl">Paus.9.25.8</span>: Καβειρία, ἡ, epith. of Demeter at <b class="b3">Κάβειροι</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.9.25.5</span> codd.: Καβείριον, τό, <b class="b2">sanctuary of the C</b>., <span class="bibl">Id.9.26.2</span>; more correctly Καβείρ[ε]ιον <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).144<span class="title">A</span>90 (Delos, iv B.C.): Καβείρια, τά, <b class="b2">their mysteries</b>, Inscr.Perg.252, Hsch.:—hence Καβειριάζομαι, <b class="b2">celebrate these mysteries</b>, St.Byz.: Καβῑριάρχας, ὁ, <span class="title">IG</span>7.2428 (Boeot.): Καβειριαρχίω ( -έω), ib.2420. (The spelling -βειρ- is correct, ib.11(2).l.c., Hdn.Gr.2.411: the form -βιρ- is Boeot. (v. supr.) and late Gr., <span class="title">Milet.</span>6.26 (i A.D.), Alexio and Philox. ap. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Et.Gud.</span>289.30</span>.) (The connection with the Semitic root <b class="b2">KBR 'great</b>' (cf. the title <b class="b3">Μεγάλοι Θεοί</b>) is not certain; nor is that with Skt. <b class="b2">Kúbera-</b> (name of a divinity), fr. <b class="b2">&#42;Kabera-</b>, cf. Patron. <b class="b2">Kāberaká-</b>.) </span>