ἑορτάζω,
in Ionic dialectProse ὁρτάζω· imperfect ἑώρταζον (with irregular augment) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.40, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.19.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future -άσω[[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 16, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.18, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἑώρτασα [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 48.34, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; infinitive ἑορτάσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1079, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 458a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare διεορτάζω: (ἑορτή):—keep festival or holiday, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.60, 122, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1458, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἑορτὰς ἑ. celebrate festivals, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 3.2; ἡμέρας τέτταρας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 42; τὴν γενέθλιόν τινος “OGI” 493.26 (Ephesus, 2nd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἑ. τῷ θεῷ [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 23. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II celebrate as a festival, νίκην ἑ. celebrate it by a festival, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.349f, compare “Ant.” 56 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; at Rome, celebrate by a triumph, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 51.21. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]