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σῶστρα , τά, (σῴζω, cf. σαοστρέω)
A.reward for saving one's life, thank-offering for deliverance from a danger, σῶστρα τοῦ παιδὸς θύειν [θεοῖς] Hdt.1.118, cf. AP9.378.7 (Pall.); “ς. ὀφείλειν τισί” Luc.Salt.8; “ἐκτίνειν τισί” Id.DMar.14.1.
2. reward for bringing back lost cattle or runaway slaves, “ς. παρέχειν” Hdt.4.9; “σῶστρα τούτου ἀνακηρύσσειν” X.Mem.2.10.2; σῶστρα δὲ μὴ ἐξεῖμ[εν ἐσπρᾶξαι] Foed.Delph. Pell.2 A 25.
3. physician's fee, Poll.6.186; thank-offering to Asclepios, IG14.967a1, b 1 (Rome), 42(1).483 (Epid.).--The sg. only in App.BC4.62.
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 (6):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.118
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.10.2
    • Lucian, De saltatione, 8
    • Lucian, Dialogi Marini, 14.1
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