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
- L
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...immolasset, ibi fore imperium; idque carmen pervenerat ad antistitem fani Dianae Sabinusque ut prima apta dies sacrificio visa..." - P
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..."