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ἴστωρ or ἵστωρ , Boeot. ϝίστωρ Schwyzer 491, etc., ορος, ὁ, ἡ:—
A.one who knows law and right, judge, “ἐπὶ ἴστορι πεῖραρ ἑλέσθαι” Il.18.501; “ἴστορα δ᾽ Ἀτρείδην Ἀγαμέμνονα θείομεν ἄμφω” 23.486; “ϝίστορες” witnesses, IG7.1779 (Thespiae); “τῶ τεθμίω ϝίστωρ” Schwyzer 523.64 (Orchom. Boeot.); “θεοὺς πάντας ἵστορας ποιεύμενος” Hp.Jusj.init., cf. Poll.8.106.
II. Adj. knowing, learned, Hes.Op.792; ἵ. τινός knowing a thing, skilled in it, “ᾠδῆς” h.Hom.32.2; “ἐγχέων” B.8.44; “κἀγὼ τοῦδ᾽ ἴ. ὑπερίστωρ” S.El.850 (lyr), cf. E.IT1431, Pl.Cra.406b. (From ϝιδ-τωρ, cf. Εἴδω, οἶδα: ἵστωρ acc. to Hdn.Gr.2.108, etc.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 8.44
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1431
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 792
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.501
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.486
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 32 to Selene, 2
    • Plato, Cratylus, 406b
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