1. ἱλάσκομαι · hilaskomai — Beekes
The corpus record
ἱλάσκομαι
ilaskomai
to propitiate, appease, reconcile
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Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ἱλάσκομαι · hilaskomai — Chantraine
3. ἱλάσκομαι · hilaskomai — Frisk
4. ἱλάσκομαι · hilaskomai — Frisk
5. ἱλᾰσ-κομαι · hilas-komai — LSJ
appease, in Hom. always of gods, θεὸν ἱ. ib. 386, cf. 100, al., Od. 3.419; μολπῇ θεὸν ἱλάσκοντο Il. 1.472; σπονδῇσι θύεσσί τε ἱλάσκεσθαι (sc. θεούς) Hes. Op. 338; ὄφρʼ ἡμῖν ἑκάεργον ἱλάσσεαι Il. 1.147; c. part., ἱλάσκομαι πέμπων by presenting, Pi. O. 7.9; τοῦτον (sc. θεὸν) ἱλάσκου ποῶν μηδὲν ἄτοπον Men. Epit. 558; of the dead as heroized, θυσίῃσί τινα ἱ. Hdt. 5.47.
of men, conciliate, ἱ. τινὰ χρήμασι Id. 8.112; πῶς ἱλασόμεθα καὶ τίνι λόγῳ; Pl. Phd. l.c.; ἱ. τὴν ὀργήν τινος Plu. Cat.Mi. 61.
expiate, τὰς ἁμαρτίας Ep.Hebr. 2.17.
Pass. with fut. ἱλάσομαι, also ἱλασθής ομαι v.l. in LXX 4 Ki. 5.18: aor. 1 ἱλάσθην ib. Ex. 32.14, al.:—to be merciful, gracious, τινι ll.cc.; ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ Ev.Luc. 18.13; ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τινῶν LXX Ps. 77(78).38: c. inf., ἱλάσθη κύριος περιποιῆσαι τὸν λαόν ib. Ex. 32.14.
In the wild
- ἱλασάμενοι · hilasamenoi Herodotus, Histories 1.67.2 (DIORISIS sentence 440)
- ἱλάσκονται · hilaskontai Herodotus, Histories 4.59.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4428)
- ἱλασκόμενοι · hilaskomenoi Herodotus, Histories 4.7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4140)
- ἱλάσκονται · hilaskontai Herodotus, Histories 5.47.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5659)
- ἱλάσκονται · hilaskontai Herodotus, Histories 6.105.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6802)
- ἱλάσκονται · hilaskontai Herodotus, Histories 7.179.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8112)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἱλάσκομαι (scan pp. 633-635; entry #2715). Root candidates: *eiA-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἱλάσκομαι (scan p. 476; entry #3362).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἱλάσκομαι (scan p. 752; entry #2595).