antistitem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →antistes, antistitis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Beeson (Medieval Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
bishop, abbot, prelate; master; occasionally applied to those of inferior rank;
acc. sg. - Entry →antistes, antistitis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
(high) priest/priestess; mouthpiece of god; master/authority (w/GEN); protector;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...penetralibus suis ostendi, si modo non institorem sed antistitem nancta est. Vale. Seneca the YoungerThe Latin Library..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...successore deficiunt: Academici et ueteres et minores nullum antistitem reliquerunt; quis est qui tradat praecepta Pyrrhonis? Pythagorica illa..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...fideliter amatae gratiam referrant, tunc te illae antistitem et cultorem suum vindicent, tunc Homerus et Vergilius tam bene..."IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...senex imaginibus agitatus dicitur ad notissimum sacrae artis antistitem non spes, non avida vota, sed suspiria, metus..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...immolasset, ibi fore imperium; idque carmen pervenerat ad antistitem fani Dianae Sabinusque ut prima apta dies sacrificio visa..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...gnaris, Timotheum Atheniensem e gente Eumolpidarum, quem ut antistitem caerimoniarum Eleusine exciverat, quaenam illa superstitio, quod numen, interrogat..."