A.“εἱστίων” Lys.19.27, Ion. 3sg. “ἱστία” Hdt.7.135 : fut. ἑστιάσω [α_] Antiph.68.1 : aor. 1 “εἱστία_σα” X.Cyr. 1.3.10, Is.8.18, inf. “ἑστιᾶσαι” Ar.Nu.1212 (later “ἡστίασεν” SIG1104.26 (Athens, i B. C.), ἱσστίασεν ib.714.31 (Eretria, ii B. C.)) : pf. “εἱστία_κα” D.21.156:—Med. and Pass., v. infr.: (ἑστία):—receive at one's hearth or in one's house, “ξένους” Lys.12.8 ; entertain, feast, τινα Hdt. l.c., Ar.Nu.1212 ; “ἐν δόμοισιν ξένον” E.Alc.765 ; ἑ. τινὰ ἰχθύσι on fish, Pl.R.404b ; at Athens, ἑ. τὴν φυλήν (cf. ἑστίασις) D.21.156 ; “τὴν πόλιν” Arist.EN1122b23 ; of the dining-room, ὁ ἀνδρὼν ὁ..
ἑστιάω , Ion. and Dor. ἱστιάω , impf.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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