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εἰρήν-η (v. infr.), ἡ,
A.peace, Od.24.486, etc.; ἐπ᾽ εἰρήνης in time of peace, Il.2.797; “ἔθηκε πᾶσιν εἰ. φίλοις” A.Pers.769; εἰ. τἀκεῖθεν τέκνοις on that side they have peace, have naught to fear, E.Med.1004; εἰ. γίγνεται peace is made, Hdt.1.74: hence later, a peace, treaty of peace, ἡ βασιλέως εἰ. IG22.103.24, etc.; εἰ. ποιεῖν 'Αρμενίοις καὶ Χαλδαίοις make peace between . . , X.Cyr.3.2.12; “εἰ. ποιεῖσθαι” And.3.8, Aeschin. 2.77; εἰ. κατεργάζεσθαι, πράττειν, And.3.8,17; “διαπράξασθαι” X.HG 6.3.4; εἰρήνης δεῖσθαι ib.2.2.13; εἰρήνην δέχεσθαι to accept it, ib. 22; “λαβεῖν” And.3.7; εἰ. ἄγειν keep peace, be at peace, Ar.Av.386, etc.; “πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Pl.R.465b; εἰ. ἄγειν (v.l. ἔχειν) enjoy peace, X.An.2.6.6; λύειν break it, D.18.71; πολλὴ εἰ. τινὸς γίγνεται profound peace, Pl. R.329c; ἐν εἰρήνῃ λέγειν, τὸν βίον διάγειν, Id.Smp.189b, R.372d; πόλεμον εἰρήνης χάριν [αἱρεῖσθαι] Arist.Pol.1333a35; εἰρήνης ἄρξας, = εἰρηναρχήσας, IGRom.3.784, cf. 452.
II. the goddess of peace, daughter of Zeus and Themis, Hes.Th.902, cf. Pi.O.13.7, B.Fr.3.1, IG3.170, Plu.Cim.13, etc.
III. Pythag. name for three, Theol.Ar. 16; for six, ib.37.
IV. Hebraism in LXX, ἐρωτῆσαί τινα εἰς εἰρήνην greet a person, inquire after their health, Jd.18.15, 1 Ki.17.22; ἐρ. τινὰ τὰ εἰς εἰ. ib.10.4; so “ἐπερωτᾶν εἰς εἰ. τοῦ πολέμου” 2 Ki.11.7; in salutations, εἰ. σοι; 4 Ki.4.26, cf. Ev.Luc.24.36, al.; “εἰ. ἡ εἴσοδός σου” 3 Ki.2.13. (“ϝειράνα” IG5(1).1509 (Sparta, iv B. C., dub.); ἰράνα ib.4.917 (Epid.), 12(3).29.12 (Telos); cf. Boeot. πολέμω καἰράνας ib.7.2407, but Cret. “πολέμω χ[ἰ]ρήνας” GDI5018.5; εἰρήνα Pi.l.c., B.l.c., SIG241.80 (Delph., iv B. C.), later “εἰράνα” IG5(1).935.14 (ii B. C.).)
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 77
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 769
    • Andocides, On the Peace, 7
    • Andocides, On the Peace, 8
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 17
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 386
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 71
    • Euripides, Medea, 1004
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.74
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 902
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.797
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    • Old Testament, 1 Samuel, 10.4
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