Supplication
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suppliant · suppliants · supplication · sanctuary · taking refuge as a suppliant
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Odyssey
The practice of a fugitive appealing for protection as a suppliant, exemplified by Theoklymenos's plea.
Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably according to what we have.
I am your suppliant;
Madman, why should you try to compass the death of Telemakhos, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is Zeus himself?
History of the Peloponnesian War
The recurring religious and social institution of seeking inviolable protection by ritual supplication, invoked three times with different outcomes.
but Themistocles, addressing himself as a suppliant to his wife, was instructed by her to take their child, and seat himself on the hearth.
When therefore, from a concerted plan, the man had gone to Taenarus as a suppliant, and had built himself a hut, divided into two by a partition wall, in which he concealed some of the ephors;
and on another of them making a secret nod, and out of kindness showing him [their object], he set off running to the temple of Minerva of the Brazen-House, and reached his place of refuge first;