ἱκετ-ήριος,
poetry ἱκτήριος, α, ον, as adjective in the latter form only, of or fit for suppliants, ἱ. θησαυρός, of hair offered to a god, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1175; κλάδοι [prev. author] “OT” 3; ἱκτήριοι,= ἱκέται, [prev. work] 327 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φωτῶν ἱκτήρια, ={φῶτας ἱκτηρίους}, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 923. ] Refs]
__II ἱκετηρία, poetry ἱκτηρία, Ionic dialect ἱκετηρίη (i.e. ῥάβδος), ἡ, olive-branch which the suppliant held in his hand as a symbol of his condition, λευκοστεφεῖς ἱκτηρίας [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 192 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἱκετηρίην λαβεῖν, φέρειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.51, 7.141; ἱκετηρίαν ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 383; καταθεῖναι ἐν τῷ Ἐλευσινίῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.110, compare “UPZ” 1.9 (4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of petitions laid before the Athenian people, ἱ. θεῖναι And.[same place], [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 43.6 (less correctly θέσθαι 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.96 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], which is a later use,[[compare “SIG” 2666.6 (from Samos))] Refs]; ὑπὲρ θυγατρὸς ἱ. τιθεμένη [[ “PTeb.” 326.3 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἱ. ἔθηκεν παρ᾽ ὑμῖν,= ἱκέτευσεν ὑμᾶς, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.107, compare 24.12; ὑπὲρ τοῦ μισθοῦ ἱ. θεῖναι εἰς τὴν βουλήν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.104, compare 2.15 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; later ἱ. πέμπειν, προβάλλεσθαι, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 28, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 3.26 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἱκετηρίας προσενέγκας, ἱκετηρίαν προσάγειν, [[ NT.Heb.5.7, “POxy.” 71 i 3 (4th c.AD): _metaphorically_, ἱκετηρίαν δὲ γόνασιν ἐξάπτω σέθεν τὸ σῶμα τοὐμόν] NT+4th c.AD+], where the suppliant represents herself as the olive-branch, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1216; νομίζετε τὸν παῖδα τουτονὶ ἱκετηρίαν προκεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.83. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]