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ἑορτ-ή , in Ion. Prose ὁρτή (so Schwyzer726.21 (Milet., v B.C.), prob. in Ion Trag.21, but
A.“ἑορτή” Schwyzer725.12 (Milet., vi B. C.)), ἡ, feast, festival, holiday, “ἐπεὶ καὶ πᾶσιν ἑ.” Od.20.156; “ἑ. τοῖο θεοῖο” 21.258; “ἐούσης ὁρτῆς τῇ Ἥρῃ τοῖσι Ἀργείοισι” Hdt.1.31; ὁρτὴν ἄγειν keep a feast, ib.147, cf. Th.4.5, etc.; “ἄξεις τότ᾽ ἀμελιτῖτιν ὁρτὴν ἐξ ὁρτῆς” Herod.5.85; “ὁρτὴν ποιευμένους” Hdt.1.150; “ὁρτὴν ἀνάγειν” Id.2.40,48, al.; “ἑορτὰς ἑορτάσαι” X.Ath.3.2; “ἑορτὴν τῇ θεῷ ποιεῖν” Th.2.15; “ἡ τῶν Παναθηναίων ἑ.” D.4.35: metaph., οἵας ἑορτῆς ἔστ᾽ ἀπόπτυστοι θεοῖς στέργηθρ᾽ ἔχουσαι, of the Eumenides, A.Eu. 191; “ἑορτὴ ὄψεως” Ael.VH13.1.
2. generally, holiday-making, amusement, pastime, “παιδιᾶς καὶ ἑορτῆς χάριν” Pl.Phdr.276b, etc.; so “ἑορτὴν ἡγεῖσθαι τὸ τὰ δέοντα πρᾶξαι” Th.1.70.
3. prov., κατόπιν ἑορτῆς ἥκειν to have come the day after the fair, Pl.Grg.447a; ἀεργοῖς αἰὲν ἑορτά every day's a holiday to those who don't work, Theoc. 15.26, cf. Herod.6.17; “ἄγουσιν ἑ. οἱ κλέπται” Suid.
4. assembled multitude at a festival, “ὄχλος καὶ ἑ. καὶ στρατὸς καὶ πλῆθος” Plot.6.6.12.
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 (14):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 191
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 1, 35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.150
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.31
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.40
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.156
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.258
    • Pseudo Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, 3.2
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 276b
    • Plato, Gorgias, 447a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.70
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.15
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.5
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 13.1
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