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χα^ρ-ιστήριος , ον,
A.of or for thanksgiving, “θυσία” D.H.1.88: so in pl., Id.10.17,54, IGRom.4.566.19 (Aezani, ii A. D.); “ἀπαρχαί” Ph.2.236; “ἀμοιβαί” D.H.1.6; “ὕμνος” Jul.Or.4.158a: c. gen., “θυσία χ. ὑδάτων” D.H.1.55, cf. Plu.Lyc.11.
II. Subst., χαριστήριον, τό, thank-offering, IG22.3003,4798, 7.3100 (Lebad.), Plu.Caes.57, Ath.15.672a, etc.: freq. in pl. χαριστήρια, τά, thank-offerings, “χ. τοῖς θεοῖς ἀποτελεῖν” X.Cyr.4.1.2; ὀφειλήσειν ib.7.2.28; προσφέρειν, θῦσαι, D.S.5.31, 20.76: c. gen., “θύειν τοῖς θεοῖς χ. τῶν εὐτυχημάτων” Plb.21.2.2; “χ. τροφῶν ἀποδιδόναι” Luc.Patr.Enc.7; “τῇ Ἑκάτῃ χ. τῆς νίκης ἑορτάζειν” Plu.2.862a; χ. ἐλευθερίας, in memory of the liberation by Thrasybulus on 12th Boëdromion, ib.349f, cf. Neanth.9J., OGI654.8 (Egypt. i B.C.); = Lat. supplicatio, Plu.Cam.7.
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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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.1.2
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.2.28
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    • Plutarch, Caesar, 57
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 10.17
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