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μειλικτήρια

From LSJ

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ων (τά) :
s.e. ἱερά;
offrande expiatoire propre à adoucir, à apaiser (les mânes).
Étymologie: μειλικτήριος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

μειλικτήρια: τά (sc. ἱερά) искупительная или умилостивительная жертва (νεκροῖσι Aesch.).

English (Woodhouse)

(see also: μειλικτήριος) something that propitiates

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