ἄγος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), [ᾰ], -εος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[any]] [[matter]] of [[religious]] [[awe]]:<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[pollution]], [[guilt]], ἐν τῷ ἄγεϊ ἐνέχεσθαι [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]6.56; ἄγος [[ἐκθύσασθαι]] 6.91; ἄγος… κεκτήσεται θεῶν A.''Th.''1022; ἄγος αἱμάτων [[ἀρέσθαι]] Id.''Eu.''168, cf. ''AP'' 7.268 (Plato); ἄγος [[φυλάσσεσθαι]] A.''Supp.''375; [[φεύγειν]] S.''Ant.''256; ὅθεν τὸ ἄγος συνέβη τοῖς Συβαρίταις Arist.''Pol.''1303a30; ἄγος [[ἀφοσιώσασθαι]] Plu.''Cam.''18: in concrete sense, the [[person]] or [[thing]] [[accursed]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]'' 1426; ἄγος [[ἐλαύνειν]] = [[ἀγηλατεῖν]], Th.1.126.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[expiation]], [[sacrifice]], S.''Ant.''775, ''Fr.''689, prob. so in A.''Ch.''155.<br><span class="bld">3</span> ἄγεα· τεμένεα, and ἀγέεσσι· τεμένεσι, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; ἄγη· τὰ μυστήρια, ''AB''212. ([[ἅγος]] (τὸ καθαρόν, [[σέβασμα]]) postulated by Gramm. (cf. [[ἅγιος]] ἐκ τοῦ ἅγος γέγονεν ''Et.Gud.'') is not found, unless ἄγος 3 be a dialectic form.)<br /><br />(B), -εος, τό, ([[ἄγνυμι]]) [[fragment]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]], ''EM''418.2.