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περιρραν-τήριον , τό,
A.utensil for besprinkling, esp. whisk for sprinkling water at sacrifices, or uessel for lustral water, Hdt.1.51, Porph.Abst.2.27 (pl.):—written περιραντήριον in Inscrr., IG22.1641.38, 11(2).287 A 93 (Delos, iii B. C.), SIG253 ii 10 (Delph., iv B. C.).
II. περιρραντήρια ἀγορᾶς the parts of the market-place sprinkled with lustral water, Lex ap.Aeschin.1.21, cf. 3.176, Luc.Sacr.12, 13.
III. = foreg., Ph.1.156, al., Luc.Pseudol.23.
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 (6):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 21
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 176
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.51
    • Lucian, De sacrificiis, 12
    • Lucian, De sacrificiis, 13
    • Lucian, Pseudologista, 23
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