Κάβειροι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], οἱ, the [[Cabeiri]], divinities worshipped especially in [[Lemnos]], [[Samothrace]], and [[Boeotia]], Pi.Fr.74bSchr., Hdt.2.51, 3.37, Str.10.3.15, etc.; at [[Miletus]], Nic.Dam.52J., Milet. (v. infr.), BCH1.288; title of play by [[Aeschylus]], Ath.10.428f, Sch.Pi.P.4.303: sg., [[Κάβειρος]] Pi. l.c.; freq. in Boeotian Inscrr. (written -βιρ-), IG7.2457, al., cf. AP6.245 (Diod.), Q.S.1.267: [[Καβειρίδες Νύμφαι]], and [[Καβειρώ]], ἡ, the [[sister]]s and [[mother]] of the [[Cabeiri]], Acus.20J., Pherecyd. 48 J.:—Adj. [[Καβειρικός]], ή, όν, fem. [[Καβειριάς]], άδος, [[Cabeiric]], St. Byz.:—also [[Καβειραῖος]], α, ον, Id., Paus.9.25.8: [[Καβειρία]], ἡ, [[epithet]] of [[Demeter]] at [[Κάβειροι]], Id.9.25.5 codd.: [[Καβείριον]], τό, [[sanctuary of the Cabeiri]]., Id.9.26.2; more correctly [[Καβείρειον]] IG11(2).144A90 (Delos, iv B.C.): [[Καβείρια]], τά, their mysteries, Inscr.Perg.252, Hsch.:—hence [[Καβειριάζομαι]], [[celebrate the Cabeirian mysteries]], St.Byz.: [[Καβιριάρχας]], ὁ, IG7.2428 (Boeot.): [[Καβειριαρχίω]] ([[Καβειριαρχέω]]), 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., Milet.6.26 (i A.D.), Alexio and Philox. ap. Et.Gud.289.30.) (The connection with the Semitic root KBR 'great' (cf. the title Μεγάλοι Θεοί) is not certain; nor is that with Skt. Kúbera- (name of a [[divinity]]), fr. *Kabera-, cf. Patron. Kāberaká-.)