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κᾰθάρ-σιος

katharsios

cleansing, purifying, cleansing from

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Where it lives

Eumenides 3 · 5.72/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

κᾰθάρ-σιος · kathar-sios — LSJ

cleansing, purifying, cleansing from

cleansing from guilt or defilement, purifying, Ζεύς Hdt. 1.44, cf. Arist. Mu. 401a23, etc.; of Dionysus, μολεῖν καθαρσίῳ ποδί S. Ant. 1144 (lyr.); of sacrifice, αἷμα A. Eu. 449, Th. 680; πῦρ E. HF 937, IA 1112, J. AJ 20.8.5, al.; φλόξ E. Hel. 869; προχύται Id. IA 1471: c. gen., [Λοξίας] δωμάτων κ. A. Eu. 63; ἱερὰ κ. οἴκων E. HF 923; also κ. φόνου cleansing from . . , A. Eu. 578.

as Subst.,

1 purificatory offering, expiation

καθάρσιον (sc. ἱερόν), τό, purificatory offering, Aeschin. 1.23, cf. Phot.: pl., BMus.Inscr. 481*.280: hence, expiation, καθαρσίου ἐδέετο κυρῆσαι Hdt. 1.35, cf. Jul. Or. 2.58d.

2 purge

(sc. φάρμακον) purge, Alex.Trall. 1.15, POxy. 1384.1 (v A.D.), Phlp. in Ph. 318.12.

III

καθάρσια, τά, = Lat. illuvies, Gloss. (nisi leg. ἀκαθαρσία).

In the wild

καθαρσίου · katharsiou Aeschylus, Eumenides 448–450
καθάρσιος · katharsios Aeschylus, Eumenides 576–578
καθάρσιος · katharsios Aeschylus, Eumenides 62–63
καθάρσιον · katharsion Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 680
καθάρσιός · katharsios Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 171)
καθαρσίῳ · katharsiōi Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 614)

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