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ἐπινίκ-ιος , ον,
A.of victory, “ἀοιδαί” Pi.N.4.78; “ὕμνος” D.S.5.29; ἀγῶνες ἐ. games to celebrate victory, Plb.30.22.1, cf. IGRom.4.1268 (Thyatira); ἐ. πομπή, ἑορτή, D.H.3.41, Plu.Rom.29; ἐ. τιμαί the honours of a triumph, Id.Aem.31; “ἡμέρα” Id.Cor.3; “στολή” D.C.37.21. Adv. “-ίως” Hsch. s.v. ἀλαλάζει.
II.. as Subst., ἐπινίκιον (sc.ᾆσμα, μέλος), τό, song of victory, triumphal ode, such as Pindar's, cf. Ath.1.3e; “Ζῆνα . . ἐπινίκια κλάζων” A.Ag.174 (lyr.).
2.. ἐπινίκια (sc.ἱερά), τά, sacrifice for a victory or feast in honour of it, Ar.Fr.433, And.4.29, D.21.55, etc.; “τὰ ἐ. θύειν” Pl.Smp.173a, etc.; “ἑστιᾶν” D.59.33; ἐ. πέμψαι, πεμφθῆναι, of a Roman triumph, D.C.36.25,37.21.
b.. (sc. ἆθλα) prize of victory, S.El. 692, D.H.3.27, IG7.3195,3196 (Orchom. Boeot.).
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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