The corpus record

χᾰρ-ιστήριος

charisterios

of, for thanksgiving, thank-offering

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Cyropaedia 3 · 0.38/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of, for thanksgiving

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 thank-offering, thank-offerings

Subst., χαριστήριον, τό, thank-offering, IG 2(2).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. Herod. 2.862a; χ. ἐλευθερίας, in memory of the liberation by Thrasybulus on 12th Boëdromion, ib. Glor.Ath. 34

In the wild

χαριστήριον · charistērion Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 12
χαριστήρια · charistēria Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1702)
χαριστήρια · charistēria Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.2.28 (DIORISIS sentence 3747)
χαριστήρια · charistēria Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4789)

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