σεμνός,, ή, όν,
(σέβομαι) revered, august, holy:
__I properly of gods, e.g. Demeter, [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 1, 486; Hecate, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.79; Thetis, [prev. author] “N.” 5.25; Apollo, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 800; Poseidon, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 55; Pallas Athena, [prev. work] 1090 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Athens the Erinyes were specially the σεμναὶ θεαί, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 837, “OC” 90, 458, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1312, “Th.” 224, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126, Autocl. cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1398b26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; or simply Σεμναί, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 383 (Lyric poetry), 1041 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 410 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ σ. ὄνομα their name, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 41; σ. βάθρον the threshold of their temple, [prev. work] 100; σ. τέλη their rites, [prev. work] 1050 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of things divine, ὄργια σ. [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 478, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 765; θέμεθλα δίκης 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.14; ὑγίεια 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 70; θυσία 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.42 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; σ. ἄντρον the cave of Cheiron, [[ [prev. author] “P.” 9.30, compare “O.” 5.18 ] Refs]; σ. δόμος the temple of Apollo, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 1.72; παιάν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 393 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σέλμα σ. ἡμένων, of the Olympian gods, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 183 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; σ. ἔργα, of the gods, [[ [prev. author] “Supp.” 1037 (Lyric poetry); μυστήρια 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 804, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 25; τέρμων οὐρανοῦ [prev. work] 746 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. βίος devoted to the gods, [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 56 ] Refs]; σεμνὰ φθέγγεσθαι, ={εὔφημα}, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 109 (variant), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 315, 364 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦ πού τι σ. ἔστιν ὃ ξυναμπέχει; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 521 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ σ. holiness, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.126. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]