Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἱκετ-ήριος

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II. ἱκετηρία, poet. ἱκτηρία, Ion. -ίη (sc. ῥάβδος), ἡ, olive-branch which the suppliant held in his hand as a symbol of his condition, “λευκοστεφεῖς ἱκτηρίας” A.Supp.192; ἱκετηρίην λαβεῖν, φέρειν, Hdt.5.51, 7.141; “ἱκετηρίαν ἔχειν” Ar.Pl.383; “καταθεῖναι ἐν τῷ Ἐλευσινίῳ” And.1.110, cf. UPZ1.9 (iv B.C.); esp. of petitions laid before the Athenian people, ἱ. θεῖναι And.l.c., Arist.Ath.43.6 (less correctly “θέσθαι” Poll.8.96, wh. is a later use, cf. SIG2666.6 (Samos)); “ὑπὲρ θυγατρὸς ἱ. τιθεμένη” PTeb.326.3 (iii A.D.); ἱ. ἔθηκεν παρ᾽ ὑμῖν,= ἱκέτευσεν ὑμᾶς, D.18.107, cf. 24.12; “ὑπὲρ τοῦ μισθοῦ ἱ. θεῖναι εἰς τὴν βουλήν” Aeschin.1.104, cf. 2.15; later ἱ. πέμπειν, προβάλλεσθαι, Plu.Pomp.28, Ael.VH3.26; ἱκετηρίας προσενέγκας, ἱκετηρίαν προσάγειν, Ep.Hebr.5.7, POxy.71 i 3 (iv A.D.): metaph., ἱκετηρίαν δὲ γόνασιν ἐξάπτω σέθεν τὸ σῶμα τοὐμόν, where the suppliant represents herself as the olive-branch, E.IA1216; “νομίζετε τὸν παῖδα τουτονὶ ἱκετηρίαν προκεῖσθαι” D.43.83.

2. = ἱκεσία, v.l. in Isoc.8.138 (pl.), cf. Plb.3.112.8 (pl.), Jul.ad Ath.275c, Hld.7.7.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (21):
- Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 104
- Aeschines, On the Embassy, 15
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 192
- Andocides, On the Mysteries, 110
- Aristophanes, Plutus, 383
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 43.6
- Demosthenes, On the Crown, 107
- Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 12
- Demosthenes, Against Macartatus, 83
- Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 1216
- Herodotus, Histories, 5.51
- Herodotus, Histories, 7.141
- Isocrates, On the Peace, 138
- New Testament, Hebrews, 5.7
- Sophocles, Ajax, 1175
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 923
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 3
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 327
- Polybius, Histories, 3.112.8
- Plutarch, Pompey, 28
- Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.26

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