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ἀνάθημα , ατος, τό, (ἀνατίθημι)
A.that which is set up: hence, like ἄγαλμα, votive offering set up in a temple, Hdt.1.14,92, S.Ant.286, etc.; “ἀ. ἐκ λειτουργιῶν” Lys.26.4.
2. used by Hom. only in first sense of ἄγαλμα, delight, ornament, “μολπή τ᾽ ὀρχηστύς τε: τὰ γάρ τ᾽ ἀναθήματα δαιτός” Od.1.152, cf. 21.430, IG14.1390; τοῖς τεκοῦσιν ἀνάθημα βιότου, of children, E.Fr.518, cf. Pl.Hp.Mi.364b; to help deserving poverty is “βασιλικοῦ πλούτου ἀ. καὶ κατασκεύασμα λαμπρότατον” D.H.19.14.
3. of a slave in a temple, ἀ. πόλεως devoted to this service by the city, E.Ion310.—Cf. ἀνάθεμα.
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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