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λατρ-εία , ἡ,
A.the state of a hired labourer, service, A.Pr.966; “ἐπίπονον ἔχειν λ.” S.Tr.830 (lyr.): pl., “οἵας λατρείας ἀνθ᾽ ὅσου ζήλου τρέφει” Id.Aj.503, cf. E.Ph.225 (lyr.), etc.: metaph., the business or duties of life, Plu.2.107c.
2. λ. τοῦ θεοῦ, θεῶν, service to the gods, divine worship, Pl.Ap.23c, Phdr.244e (pl.): abs., LXX Ex.12.25, al., Ep.Rom.9.4, etc.
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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