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βωμός , ὁ, (βαίνω)
A.raised platform, stand, for chariots, Il.8.441; base of a statue, Od.7.100: but,
2. mostly, altar with a base, “ἱερὸς β.” Il.2.305, etc.; “πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς” A.Eu.305; “βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν ῥῦμα” Id.Supp.84 (lyr.); “βωμῶν ἀπείργειν τινά” Id.Ch.293; “ἀγυιεὺς β.” S.Fr.370; of suppliants, “ποτὶ βωμὸν ἵζεσθαι” Od.22.334; βωμο<*>σι προσῆσθαι, προσπεσόντα βωμῷ καθῆσθαι, S.OT16, OC1158; “βωμὸν ἵζειν” E.Ion1314: also in Prose, “β. ἱδρύσασθαι” Hdt.3.142, cf. Pl.Prt.322a; “ἱζόμενοι ἐπὶ τὸν β.” Hdt.6.108; “ἐπὶ βωμῶν καθέζεσθαι” Lys.2.11.
3. later, tomb, cairn, Epigr.Gr.319.
4. title of poems by Dosiades and Besantinus, AP15.26and25, cf. Luc.Lex.25.
5. altar-shaped cake, IG2.1651B,C, Poll.6.76.
6. Ζεὺς Βωμός, prob. a Syrian god, Hermes37.118 (Syria).
7. central fire in the system of Philolaus, acc. to Placit.2.7.7.
8. in pl., = ἔμβολοι, Hsch.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 305
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 293
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 84
    • Euripides, Ion, 1314
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.142
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.108
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.305
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.441
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.334
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.100
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 11
    • Plato, Protagoras, 322a
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1158
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 16
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 370
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 25
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