A.“-ῆϝος” Inscr.Cypr.59 H., ὁ, Att. pl. ἱερῆς: gen. sg. and pl. written ἱερείως, ἱερείων, PStrassb.83.2,9 (ii B.C.):—Ion. nom. ἱρεύς Il.5.10, 16.604, Od.9.198: Dor. ἱα^ρεύς IG 4.1182, al. (gen. ἰαρέος ib.1580); acc. pl. “τὸς ἱαρές” Schwyzer 236 (Cyrene); nom. pl. οἱ ἱαρές ibid.; nom. sg. “ἱαρές” GDI4846 (Cyrene):— also ἱέρεως (Att. and proparox. acc. to Choerob. in Theod.1.253) SIG1037.4 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.); gen. “ἱέρεω” IPE12.32A23, al. (Olbia, iii B.C.); dat. “ἵρεῳ” Schwyzer692 (Chios, v. B.C.); acc. “ἱέρεω” Milet. 1(7).203b3 (ii B.C.): ἱερής IG5(2).115.1 (Tegea, iv/iii B.C.), cf. Inscr.Cypr.100 H.:—Arc. ἱαρής IG5(2).13.10 (iii B.C.): acc. ἱερήν ib.3.1 (Tegea, iv B.C.): (ἱερός):—priest, sacrificer, diviner, Il.1.62, 16.604, Pi.P.2.17, Hdt.2.2, And.1.124, etc.; ἐφ᾽ ἱερέως, as a date, SIG332.1 (Potidaea, iv/iii B.C.), etc. (freq. unaspirated, “ἐπ᾽ ἰερέως” IG12(1).890, etc. (Rhodes)); of the Jewish High Priest, D.S.34/5.1; “ἱ. ὁ μέγας” LXXLe.21.10, Ph.2.591; “ἱ. ὁ χριστός” LXXLe.4.5; at Rome, = pontifex, Mon.Anc.Gr.6.9; ἱ. ὁ μέγιστος, = pont. maximus, D.S.27.2.
ἱερ-εύς [ι^], έως, Ion. -ῆος, Cypr.