The corpus record

καθᾰγ-νίζω

kathagnizo

purify, hallow

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

καθᾰγ-νίζω · kathag-nizō — LSJ

purify, hallow

purify, hallow, τὸν τόπον θείῳ καὶ δᾳδί Luc. Philops. 12; μήτηρ πυρὶ καθήγνισται δέμας, i.e. has been burnt on the funeral-pyre, E. Or. 40.

II offer as an expiatory sacrifice

offer as an expiatory sacrifice, πέλανον ἐπὶ πυρὶ καθαγνίσας Id. Ion 707 (lyr.).—On S. Ant. 1081, Ph. 1.190, 558, v. καθαγίζω.

In the wild

καθαγνίσας · kathagnisas Euripides, Ion 1.705 (DIORISIS sentence 465)
καθήγνισται · kathēgnistai Euripides, Orestes *)hle/ktra (DIORISIS sentence 20)
καθήγνισαν · kathēgnisan Sophocles, Antigone 1080–1083

Where it came from

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