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ἑστια?τ-ωρ , ορος, ὁ,
A.one who gives a banquet, host, Pl.R.421b, Ti.17a, Charond. ap. Stob.4.2.24, Ph.2.70, Them.Or.24.301a.
2. at Athens, the citizen on whom the liturgy of ἑστίασις (q.v.)fell,D.20.21,39.7.
b. at Delphi, manager of the commissariat at the Pythais, SIG711 D217, al. (ii B. C.).
3. metaph., “ἑ. τοῦ λόγου” Philostr.VA6.10.
II. guest, Posidon.9 J.
III. ἱστιάτορες , οἱ, office-bearers of a religious association (ὀργεῶνες), IG 22.1259 (iv B. C.) ; = ἐσσῆνες (A) 1, at Ephesus, Paus.8.13.1.
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):
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 21
    • Demosthenes, Against Boeotus 1, 7
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.13.1
    • Plato, Republic, 421b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 17a
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.10
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