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θῦμα , ατος, τό, (θύω A)
A.victim, sacrifice, SIG56.31 (Argos, v B.C.), A. Ag.1310, S.Ph.8,Ar.Av.901, Wilcken Chr.1 iii 3 (iii B.C.), etc.; “τὸ θ. τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος” Th.5.53; θ. θύειν, θύσασθαι, Pl.Plt.290e, R.378a, etc.; usu. of animals, but πάγκαρπα θ. offerings of all fruits, S.El.634; <ἁγνὰ> θ., opp. ἱερεῖα, expld. by Sch. as cakes in the form of animals, Th.1.126, cf. Pl.Lg.782c, Poll.1.26: prov., θ. Δελφόν 'Barmecide's feast', Call.Iamb.1.98.
2. pl., of animals slaughtered for food, LXX Ge.43.16.
3. metaph., of persons, θ. λεύσιμον, prob. of Clytemnestra, A.Ag.1118 (lyr.); “πρόκεισθε θύματα τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐξουσίας” Hdn.2.13.5.
II. act of sacrifice, ὧδ᾽ ἦν τὰ κείνης θ. S.El.573. [θυ^μα only Supp.Epigr.2.518 (Rome, iv A.D.), cf. Hdn.Gr.2.15.]
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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