Ἁγιστεύειν

to perform sacred rites

Translated by Nathan Greenberg ✝24 Nov 1998Vetting: high6 revisions

1 note · 22 words
[Meaning] to sanctify. Also [sc. attested is] a(gisteu/santes ["they having performed sacred rites"],1 [meaning] they having performed the rites of the sacrifice.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἁγιστεύειν· ἁγιάζειν. καὶ Ἁγιστεύσαντες, τὰ τῆς θυσίας ἐπιτελέσαντες.

Betacode
*(agisteu/ein: a(gia/zein. kai\ *(agisteu/santes, ta\ th=s qusi/as e)pitele/santes.

Notes (1)

  1. Same material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha177 and alpha178 Theodoridis.
    LSJ entry at web address 1.
  2. 1Nominative masculine plural of this aorist active participle, evidently quoted from somewhere but not independently attested. ↩

External resources

Neighbouring entries

α239Ἄγις ἌγιδοςAgis, (genitive) Agidosα240Ἁγίσαι καὶ καθαγίσαιto sanctify and to dedicateα241Ἁγιστεύεινto perform sacred ritesα242Ἁγιστείαςritualsα243Ἀγκαλίδαarm
Revision history6 revisions · last 22 Nov 2020
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. my typo — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Added headword translation, note, link. — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Nathan Greenberg ✝

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“to perform sacred rites.” Suda On Line. Tr. Nathan Greenberg ✝. 24 November 1998. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/241>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/alpha/241>.

Translation by Nathan Greenberg ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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