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ἱλα?́σ-κομαι , fut. ἱλάσομαι [α^] Pl. Phd.95a, Ep. ἱλάσσομαι Orac. ap. Paus.8.42.6, also
A.“ἱλάξομαι” A.R. 2.808: aor. 1 ἱλα^σάμην, Ep. part. “ἱλασσάμενοι” Il.1.100, Ep. subj. 2sg. “ἱλάσσεαι” 1.147, “-ηαι” A.R.3.1037; inf. “ἱλάσσασθαι” Ant.Lib.25.2 codd.; also “ἱλάξασθαι” A.R.1.1093:—Pass. (v. infr. 11). [ι_ regularly (written ι, not ει, SIG1044.6,9 (Halic., iv/iii B.C.)); ι^ Il.1.100, 147]: (ἵλαος):—appease, in Hom. always of gods, θεὸν ἱ. ib.386, cf. 100, al., Od.3.419; “μολπῇ θεὸν ἱλάσκοντο” Il.1.472; σπονδῇσι θύεσσί τε ἱλάσκεσθαι (sc. θεούς) Hes.Op.338; “ὄφρ᾽ ἡμῖν ἑκάεργον ἱλάσσεαι” Il.1.147; c. part., ἱλάσκομαι πέμπων by presenting, Pi.O.7.9; τοῦτον (sc. θεὸν）“ ἱλάσκου ποῶν μηδὲν ἄτοπον” Men.Epit.558; of the dead as heroized, “θυσίῃσί τινα ἱ.” Hdt.5.47.
2. of men, conciliate, “ἱ. τινὰ χρήμασι” Id.8.112; πῶς ἱλασόμεθα καὶ τίνι λόγῳ; Pl.Phd.l.c.; “ἱ. τὴν ὀργήν τινος” Plu.Cat.Mi.61.
3. expiate, “τὰς ἁμαρτίας” Ep.Hebr.2.17.
II. Pass. with fut. ἱλάσομαι, also ἱλασθής ομαι v.l. in LXX 4 Ki.5.18: aor. 1 ἱλάσθην ib.Ex.32.14,al.:—to be merciful, gracious, τινι ll.cc.; “ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ” Ev.Luc.18.13; “ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τινῶν” LXXPs.77(78).38: c. inf., ἱλάσθη κύριος περιποιῆσαι τὸν λαόν ib.Ex.32.14.
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 (19):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.47
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.112
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 338
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.100
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.147
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.472
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.419
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 100
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 386
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 32.14
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 5.18
    • New Testament, Luke, 18.13
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.42.6
    • Plato, Phaedo, 95a
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.1093
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.808
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.1037
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 2.17
    • Plutarch, Cato Minor, 61
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