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ἱερεῖον , τό, Ion. ἱερήϊον or ἱρήϊον (the former in Hom. (pl. written
A.“ἱερήιια” SIG57.14 (Milet., v B.C.)), the latter in Hdt.), Dor. ἱα^ρήϊον Berl.Sitzb.1927.159 (Cyrene), prob. in Leg.Gort.10.38:—victim, animal for sacrifice, “ἱρεύειν ἱερήϊον” Od.14.94; ἱερήϊα πολλὰ παρεῖχον ib.250; “ἐπεὶ οὐχ ἱ. οὐδὲ βοείην ἀρνύσθην” Il.22.159 (prov. for 'no trifling stake', Cic.Att.1.1.4), cf. Hdt.1.132, 6.57, Ar.Lys.84, Pax1091, And.1.126; opp. <ἁγνὰ> θύματα, Th.1.126; “ἱερεῖον καὶ ἱερά” Test.Epict.5.35; freq. of sheep, OGI214.62 (Didyma, iii B.C.), IPE12.76 (Olbia, perh. iv B.C.); of pigs, PCair.Zen.161 (iii B.C.).
2. in Od.11.23 (pl.), offering for the dead, for which, acc. to Sch., τόμιον or ἔντομον was more correct.
II. cattle slaughtered for food, Hp.Aff.52, Mnesith. ap. Orib. 2.68.6: in pl., X.Cyr.1.4.17; of sucking-pigs, Gal.1.578, 10.489.
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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