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ἐλευθ-έρια (sc. ἱερά), τά,
A.festival of Liberty, held every four years at Plataea, in memory of the battle there, Posidipp.29, D.S. 11.29, Paus.9.2.6, etc.; at Syracuse, in memory of the restoration of the republic, D.S.11.72; at Samos, in honour of Eros, Erxias ap. Ath.13.562a: generally, “ἐ. θύειν” Henioch.5.10.
II. thanksgiving for liberty, IG9(2).1034(Thess.).
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.29
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.72
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.2.6
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