ἱκέτης (hiketēs)
hiketēs
a supplicant
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Definition
Definition
one who comes to seek protection, a suppliant or fugitive , who lays his ἱκετηρία on the altar or hearth, after which his person was inviolable; especially one who seeks purification after homicide , (Homer), etc. (ML)