ἁγι-αστία, ἡ,
variant for{ἁγιστεία}, [[ LXX.4Mac.7.9.] LXX]: ἁγ-ιστεία, ἡ,
ritual, service, τῶν θεῶν, in plural, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.28, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 371d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 268a14] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later in singular, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.3.7, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 1.7, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 22, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.178d.] Refs 1st c.BC+]