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ἱκέσ-ιος , α, ον, or ος, ον (v. infr.),
A.of or for suppliants, epith. of Zeus, their protector, A.Supp. 616, S.Ph.484, E.Hec.345, SIG929 (Cos); also Ἱκέσιος alone, IG12 (3).402 (Thera); “πρὸς Ἱκεσίου” Luc.Pisc.3; “ἱκεσία Θέμις Διός” A.Supp. 360 (lyr.).
2. of or consisting of suppliants, “παρθένων ἱ. λόχος” Id.Th.111 (lyr.).
3. suppliant, “ἱκεσίους πέμπων λιτάς” S.Ph.495; “ἱκεσίαν . . προστροπάν” E.Heracl.108 (lyr.); “ἱκεσίοις σὺν κλάδοις” Id.Supp. 102; ἱκεσίᾳ χερί ib.108; ἀνάγκας ἱκεσίους λῦσαι ib.39; of persons, “ἱκέσιός σε λίσσομαι” S.Ant.1230; “ἱκεσία τε γίγνομαι” E.Med.710: ἱκέσιος, ὁ, as Subst., suppliant, Berl.Sitzb.1927.167 (Cyrene).
II. ἡ Ἱκέσιος (sc. ἔμπλαστρος), name of a plaster, Paul.Aeg.3.62, 7.17; “ἡ Ἱκεσίου” Id.3.64. [ι^κ-, exc. metri gr. in A.R.2.215.]
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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