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ἄγος (A), [α^], εος, τό,
A.any matter of religious awe:
1. pollution, guilt, “ἐν τῷ ἄγεϊ ἐνέχεσθαι” Hdt.6.56; “ἄ. ἐκθύσασθαι” 6.91; “ἄ . . . κεκτήσεται θεῶν” A.Th.1022; “ἄ. αἱμάτων ἀρέσθαι” Id.Eu.168, cf. AP 7.268 (Plato); “ἄ. φυλάσσεσθαι” A.Supp.375; “φεύγειν” S.Ant.256; “ὅθεν τὸ ἄ. συνέβη τοῖς Συβαρίταις” Arist.Pol.1303a30; “ἄ. ἀφοσιώσασθαι” Plu.Cam.18: in concrete sense, the person or thing accursed, S.OT 1426; ἄ. ἐλαύνειν, = ἀγηλατεῖν, Th.1.126.
2. expiation, sacrifice, S.Ant.775, Fr.689, prob. so in A.Ch.155.
3. ἄγεα: τεμένεα, and ἀγέεσσι: τεμένεσι, Hsch.; ἄγη: τὰ μυστήρια, AB212. (ἅγος （῀ τὸ καθαρόν, σέβασμα) postulated by Gramm. (cf. ἅγιος ἐκ τοῦ ἅγος γέγονεν Et.Gud.) is not found, unless “ἄγος” 3 be a dialectic form.)
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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