ἱερός .ἱερός, ά, όν super-human, mighty, divine, wonderful, Hom.; often like θεσπέσιος, to express wonder or admiration, ἱερὸν τέλος, ἱερὸς στρατός a glorious band, Hom.; ἱερὸς δίφρος a splendid chariot, Il.; οὐχ ἱερόν no mighty matter! Theocr. holy, hallowed, Lat. sacer, Hom., etc.; ἱερὸς πόλεμος a holy war, Ar., etc.: ἱρὰ γράμματα, ἱερογλυφικά, Hdt.; ἱερὸν τὸ σῶμα διδόναι, of one dedicated to a god, Eur.; ἱερὸς νόμος the law of sacrifice, Dem.; of the Roman Tribunes, to express sacrosanctus, Plut.; for ἱερὰ καὶ ὅσια, v. ὅσιος. of kings, heroes, etc., from a notion of "the divinity that doth hedge a king,"Pind., Soph. as Subst., ἱερά, Ionic ἱρά, τά, offerings, sacrifices, victims, ἱερὰ ῥέζειν, Lat. sacra facere, operari, Il.; ἔρδειν Hes.; θῦσαι Hdt.:—after Hom. the inwards of the victim, the auspices, τὰ ἱερὰ καλὰ ἦν Xen.; or, simply, τὰ ἱερὰ γίγνεται Xen.:—generally, sacred things or rites, Lat. sacra, Hdt. ἱερόν, Ionic ἱρόν, τό, a temple, holy place, Hdt., Attic ἱρὸν τῆς δίκης a sacred principle of right, Eur. special phrases: ἱερὸς λόχος, v. λόχος 1. 4. ἱερὰ νόσος the awful disease, epilepsy, Hdt. ἡ ἱ. ὁδός the sacred road to Delphi, Hdt. ἡ ἱερά (sc. τριήρης) , of the Delian ship, or one of the state-ships (Salaminia or Paralos), Dem. Ἱερὰ νῆσος, one of the Liparean group, Thuc. adv. -ρῶς, holily, Plut.