A.part of a victim offered in burntsacrifice, usu. in pl., “ὁ δ᾽ ἐν πυρὶ βάλλε θυηλάς” Il.9.220, cf. Philoch.172, Nic.Fr.62, Ath.13.566a: generally, sacrifice, “ἄνευ θυηλῶν” Ar.Av.1520; “θυηλαὶ ἀναίμακτοι” AP6.324.3 (Leon. Alex.); θυσίαι καὶ θ. D.S.3.62, Porph.Abst.2.59: metaph., θυηλὴ Ἄρεος an offering to Ares, i.e. the blood of the slain, S.El.1423; ἄτης θυηλαί cj. Herm. for θύελλαι, A. Ag.819; cf. θυάλημα, θύλημα.
θυ^-ηλή , ἡ, (θύω)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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