A.elephant, Lyd.Mens.4.102) Caesar, a cognomen of the Gens Julia; esp. of Julius Caesar, D.S. 5.22, Str.4.5.3, etc.; Κ. ὁ θεός prob. in OGI767.5; also of Augustus, ib.458.9 (9 B.C.), Nic.Dam.Vit.Caes. tit., etc.; ὁ νεὸς Κ., opp. ὁ πρεσβύτερος Κ., ib.6; in general, the Emperor, OGI473.8, etc.; Καίσαρος ἀπελεύθερος ib.629.90, etc.; Πρῖμος Καίσαρος, i. e. P. the Emperor's slave, Wilcken Chr.112.4; “ἀπόδοτε τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι” Ev.Luc.20.25: pl., “οἱ Καίσαρες” OGI516.21: as title of the designated successor, “Καίσαρα ἀποδεικνύει” Hdn.2.15.3, etc.; name of month in the province of Asia, OGI458.54, etc.:—hence Καισάρειος , ον, of, belonging to Caesar, οἱ Κ. his household or officials, POxy.477.5 (ii A. D.), D.C. 52.24, al.; οἶκος Κ., hall in Herod the Great's palace, J.BJ1.21.1; τὸ Κ. temple of Julius Caesar at Alexandria, Str.17.1.9: Καισάρεια ( καιρό-ηα ), τά, games in honour of Gaius Caesar at Cos, SIG1065.9 (Cos); at Corinth and elsewhere, IG7.1856 (Thespiae), etc.: Καισάρειος , or καιρό-ιος , ὁ (sc. μήν), name of month in Egypt and elsewhere, POxy.45.17 (i A. D.), Hemerolog.Flor., etc.:—also Καισαρεών , ῶνος, ὁ, Rev.Et. Gr.19.268 (Κεσ-, Aphrodisias):
Καῖσαρ , α^ρος, ὁ, (said to be Punic, =
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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