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λι^τή , ἡ, (λίτομαι)
A.prayer, entreaty, mostly in pl., “λιτῇσι ἐλλισάμην” Od.11.34; “καταβαίνειν ἐς λιτάς” Hdt.1.116; λιταῖς ἀποτρέπει [αὐτὸν] μὴ πορεύεσθαι ib.105; “λιταῖς πεῖσαί τινα” Pi.O.2.80, cf. 8.8; “μαλθάσσειν κέαρ λιταῖς” A.Pr.1008; “ηὔχετο λιταῖσι” Id.Pers.499; “λιτᾶν ἀκούειν” Id.Ag.396 (lyr.); “λιτὰς κλύειν” Id.Th.172 (lyr.), cf. E.Or.1233, etc.; “λιταῖς σεβίζειν” S.OC1557 (lyr.); ἐπεύχεσθαι λιτάς ib.484; “λ. δέχεσθαι” Id.Ant. 1019; ἐν λιταῖς στέλλειν with prayers, Id.Ph.60; λιταὶ θεῶν prayers to the gods, E.Supp.262; but λιταὶ ἐμαυτοῦ ξυμμάχων τε prayers for myself, S.OC1309: also c. gen. of that by which one prays, “γενείου τοῦδ᾽ . . ἐκτεῖναι λιτάς” E.Or.290. (Poet., Ion. and late Prose, BGU 74.15 (ii A. D.).)
II. Λιταί, αἱ, personified, Prayers of sorrow and repentance, Il.9.502 sq., AP11.361 (Autom.).
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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