antistitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →antistita, antistitae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
(high) priestess (of a temple/deity, w/GEN);
acc. pl.
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...auditis clamorem meum, ferte suppetias qui Veneri Veneriaeque antistitae more antiquo in custodelam suom commiserunt caput, praetorquete iniuriae..." - A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...arva. XXII. Sacerdotes quoque feminas M. Cicero "antistitas" dicit, non secundum grammaticam legem "antistites". Nam cum insolentias verborum..."