A.“ἱερήιια” SIG57.14 (Milet., v B.C.)), the latter in Hdt.), Dor. ἱα^ρήϊον Berl.Sitzb.1927.159 (Cyrene), prob. in Leg.Gort.10.38:—victim, animal for sacrifice, “ἱρεύειν ἱερήϊον” Od.14.94; ἱερήϊα πολλὰ παρεῖχον ib.250; “ἐπεὶ οὐχ ἱ. οὐδὲ βοείην ἀρνύσθην” Il.22.159 (prov. for 'no trifling stake', Cic.Att.1.1.4), cf. Hdt.1.132, 6.57, Ar.Lys.84, Pax1091, And.1.126; opp. <ἁγνὰ> θύματα, Th.1.126; “ἱερεῖον καὶ ἱερά” Test.Epict.5.35; freq. of sheep, OGI214.62 (Didyma, iii B.C.), IPE12.76 (Olbia, perh. iv B.C.); of pigs, PCair.Zen.161 (iii B.C.).
2. in Od.11.23 (pl.), offering for the dead, for which, acc. to Sch., τόμιον or ἔντομον was more correct.
II. cattle slaughtered for food, Hp.Aff.52, Mnesith. ap. Orib. 2.68.6: in pl., X.Cyr.1.4.17; of sucking-pigs, Gal.1.578, 10.489.