The corpus record

θυστάς

thustas · ἡ

sacrificial

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

What it meant

θυστάς · thystas — LSJ

sacrificial, uttered in sacrificing, accompanying a sacrifice

sacrificial, θ. βοή the cry uttered in sacrificing, A. Th. 269; θ. λιταί the prayers accompanying a sacrifice, S. Ant. 1019.

as Subst., = θυτήρ, Sch. Opp. H. 5.417;= θυιάς, Hsch.

2 sacrificial robe

sacrificial robe, E. Fr. 1101.

In the wild

θυστάδος · thystados Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 267–270
θυστάδας · thystadas Sophocles, Antigone 1019–1022

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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