Ancient Greek

Noun

ῐ̔κέτης • ‎(hikétēs) m ‎(genitive ῐ̔κέτου); first declension

1. One who comes looking for aid or protection, suppliant
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.19
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 634
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.136
2. One who comes looking for purification after having murdered someone: common in the Iliad and Odyssey
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.158
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.270

Declension

Related terms

• ἱκετήριος ‎(hiketḗrios)
• ἱκετηρίς ‎(hiketērís)
• ἱκετήσιος ‎(hiketḗsios)
• ἱκετικός ‎(hiketikós)
• ἱκέτις ‎(hikétis)

References

• «ἱκέτης» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἱκέτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press