Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), H, Hestiāsis, Hestiāsis

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Hestiāsis

（ἑστίασις). A species of liturgy which consisted in giving a feast to one of the tribes at Athens by some person belonging to the tribe, who was known as ἑστιάτωρ. See Harpocration, s. v. ἑστιάτωρ.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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