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λατρ-εύω , Elean λατρείω (q.v.),
A.work for hire or pay, Sol. 13.48: to be in servitude, serve, X.Cyr.3.1.36; “παρά τινι” Apollod.2.6.3.
2. λ. τινί to be subject or enslaved to, S.Tr.35, etc.: c. acc. pers., serve, E.IT1115 (lyr.), f.l. in Id.El.131: metaph., λ. πέτρᾳ, of Prometheus, A.Pr.968; “μόχθοις λατρεύων τοῖς ὑπερτάτοις βροτῶν” S.OC105; λ. νόμοις obey, X.Ages.7.2; λ. καιρῷ, = Lat. temporibus inservire, Ps.-Phoc.121; τῷ κάλλει λ. to be devoted to . . , Isoc.10.57; “λ. ἡδονῇ” Luc.Nigr.15.
3. serve the gods with prayers and sacrifices, “λ. Φοίβῳ” E.Ion152 (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., πόνον λ. τινί render due service, ib.129 (lyr.); “πόνον . . τόνδ᾽ ἐλάτρευσα θεᾷ” IG2.1378.
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 968
    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 2.6.3
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    • Euripides, Ion, 129
    • Euripides, Ion, 152
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1115
    • Isocrates, Helen, 57
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 105
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 35
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.1.36
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