Supplication
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suppliant · suppliants · supplication · sanctuary · taking refuge as a suppliant
in the texts
Odyssey
The practice of a fugitive appealing for protection as a suppliant, exemplified by Theoklymenos's plea.
I am your suppliant;
Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably according to what we have.
Do whatever you like with him, only remember that he is your suppliant.
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.
The king, after hearing him, raised him up with his son (for so he was sitting with him, and this was the most prevailing mode of supplication).
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;