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χρηστηριάζω ,
A.give oracles, prophesy, τισι Ephor.31(b) J.; “χ. τάδε πρὸς τὴν ἐρώτησιν” SIG557.6 (Magn.Mae., iii B. C.).
II. mostly in Med. (fut. “-άσομαι” Theopomp.Hist.314), consult an oracle, Hdt.1.55; χρηστηριάζεσθαι ἐν Δελφοῖσι ἐπί τινι ib.66; χ. θεῷ consult a god, Id.7.178; ἱροῖσι χ. by means of victims, Id.8.134; “αἰξὶ μάλιστα χ.” D.S. 16.26; περί τινος respecting something, Hdt.2.52; χ. εἰ . . to as the oracle whether . . , Id.5.67; “εἰς ἥντινα παρέσονται χώραν” Ant.Lib.8.2:—aor. Pass., “τῶν βουλομένων -ασθῆναι” IG9(2).1109.34 (thessaly, ii/i B. C.).
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.26
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.55
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.52
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.67
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.134
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