A.pure, chaste, holy, Hom. (only in Od.), etc.:
I. of places and things dedicated to gods, hallowed, “ἑορτή” Od.21.259; of frankincense, “ἁγνὴ ὀδμή” Xenoph.1.7; “ἄλσος” h.Merc.187; “τέμενος” Pi.P.4.204; “ὕδωρ” Id.I.6(5).74; “πυρὸς ἁγνόταται παγαί” Id.P.1.21; “αἰθήρ” A.Pr.282; φάος, λουτρόν, S.El.86, Ant.1201; “θύματα” Id.Tr.287, cf. Th.1.126, D.H.1.38; of food, Jul.Or.6.192c (Comp.); “χρηστήρια” E.Ion243, etc.; ἐν ἁγνῷ on holyground, A.Supp. 223, but χῶρον οὐχ ἁ. πατεῖν a spot not lawful to tread on, S.OC 37.
2. of divine persons, chaste, pure, Hom., mostly of Artemis, “χρυσόθρονος Ἄ. ἁ.” Od.5.123, 18.202, etc.; also “ἁ. Περσεφόνεια” 11.386, cf. h.Cer.337; of Demeter, h.Cer.203,439; “Χάριτες” Sapph.65; ἁ. θεαί, Demeter and Persephone, IG14.204, 4.31; Apollo, Pi.P.9.64; Zeus, A.Supp.653, S.Ph.1289: of the attributes of gods, “θεῶν σέβας” S.OT830.
II. after Hom., of persons, undefiled, chaste, of maidens, Alc.55, Pi.P.4.103, A.Fr.242; ἁ. αὐδά, of a maiden's voice, Ag.245; of Hippolytus, E.Hipp.102; c. gen., λέχους ἁ. δέμας ib.1003; “γάμων ἁ.” Pl.Lg.840d, cf. Men.Epit.223; ἁ. ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς συνουσίας Jusj. ap.D.59.78.
2. pure from blood, guiltless, “ἁγνοὶ τοὐπὶ τήνδε τὴν κόρην” S.Ant.889; “ἁ. χεῖρας” E.Or.1604; “μητροκτόνος . . τόθ᾽ ἁ. ὤν” Id.El.975, cf. IA940; ὅθ᾽ ἁ. ἦν when he had been purified, S.Tr. 258: c. gen., “ἁγνὰς χεῖρας αἵματος” E.Hipp.316; “φόνου” Pl.Lg.759c; Δάματρος ἀκτᾶς δέμας ἁ. ἴσχειν pure from food, E.Hipp.138.
