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ἑστιῶν αὐτούς Ael.VH8.7.
2. abs., give a feast, ἑ. μεγαλοπρεπῶς ib.12.51 ; “οἱ ἑστιῶντες” entertainers, Pl.Grg.518d ; “τὸν ἱστιῶντ᾽ ἐπαινέω” Epich.35.4.
3. c. acc. cogn., “Ζεὺς..Πέλοπι ἔρανον ἱστιῶν” Id.87 ; γάμους ἑ. give a marriage feast, E.HF483, Ar.Av.132 ; “ἑ. νικητήρια” X.Cyr.8.4.1 ; “ἐπινίκια” D.59.33 ; “δεκάτην ὑπέρ τινος” Id.40.28 ; “γενέθλια” Luc.Herm.11 : and c dupl.acc., “ἅμα θύσαντα τὰ ἱερὰ ἑστιᾶσαι ἐκεῖνον” Antipho 1.16 ; “θεσμοφόρια ἑ. τὰς γυναῖκας” Is.3.80 ; “τὴν γενέθλιον ἑ. τινά” Luc.Dem.Enc.26, cf. Symp.2 : c. dat., Eup.59.
4. metaph., “ἑ. τινὰ λόγων καλῶν” Pl.R.571d, cf. Luc.Philops.39 ; ἑ. τὰς ἀκοάς, τὴν ὄψιν, Ael.VH3.1, NA17.23, etc.
II. Pass., with fut. Med. “ἑστιάσομαι” Pl.R.345c, Tht.178d ; later ἑστια_θήσομαι Sch.Ar. Ach.977 : aor. 1 “εἱστιάθην” Pl.Phdr.247e, (συν-) D.19.190 ; later “ἑστιάσασθαι” S.E.M.8.186 : pf. “εἱστία_μαι” Pl.R.354a, Ion. inf. “ἱστιῆσθαι” Hdt. 5.20:—to be a guest, be feasted, Id. l.c., Pl.R.372c ; “ἑ. παρὰ ἀνδρὶ φίλῳ” Antipho 1.26 : c. acc. rei. feast on.., ἑ. ἐνύπνιον have a visionary feast, 'feast with the Barmecide', Ar.V.1218 ; ἑ. γῆν, τὰ ὄντα, Pl.R.612a, Phdr.247e : c. dat., “εὐωδίᾳ” X.Smp.2.3 ; “λόγοις” Ath.7.275b : metaph., “ταῦτά σοι εἱστιάσθω ἐν τοῖς Βενδιδείοις” Pl.R.354a.
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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