votary
votary
subs.
P. θεραπευτής, ὁ.
Lover: P. and V. ἐραστής, ὁ.
Unjust is the goddess.
And many a prosperous home and city hath she entered and left to the ruin of her votaries: V. ἄδικος ἡ θεός· πολλοὺς δʼ ἐς οἴκους καὶ πόλεις εὐδαίμονας εἰσῆλθε κἀξῆλθʼ ἐπʼ ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων (Eur. Phoen. 532).
subs.
P. θεραπευτής, ὁ.
Lover: P. and V. ἐραστής, ὁ.
Unjust is the goddess.
And many a prosperous home and city hath she entered and left to the ruin of her votaries: V. ἄδικος ἡ θεός· πολλοὺς δʼ ἐς οἴκους καὶ πόλεις εὐδαίμονας εἰσῆλθε κἀξῆλθʼ ἐπʼ ὀλέθρῳ τῶν χρωμένων (Eur. Phoen. 532).
VOTARY
deditus or addictus alicui or alicui rei: devotus alicui or alicui rei (post-Augustan): studiosus alicujus or alicujus rei. SYN. and PHRASES in DEVOTED.
deditus or addictus alicui or alicui rei: devotus alicui or alicui rei (post-Augustan): studiosus alicujus or alicujus rei. SYN. and PHRASES in DEVOTED.
votary: perh. cultor a niggard and unfrequent v. of the gods, parcus deorum c. et infrequens, Hor. Od. 1, 34, 1. Phr.: a v. of pleasure, deditus voluptatibus; propensus ad voluptates: Cic.: v. DEVOTED : WORSHIPPER .