A.“ὀργεῶναι” IG22.2361.18 (iii A. D.)), ὁ, at Athens, member of a religious association, Is. 2.14,16, al., Philoch.94, IG22.1252 (iv B. C.), etc.: poet., generally, for ἱερεύς, priest, A.Fr.144 :—a poet. form ὀργειών (in codd. sts. ὀργιών), ῶνος, ὁ, is used by Antim.Eleg.Fr.2, Hermesian.7.19 : in acc. with ο for ω“, ὀργίονας” h.Ap.389 codd. :—a gen. pl. “ὀργέων” Lys. Fr.112 S. is prob. f.l. for ὀργεώνων :—a fem. pl. ὀργεῶναι, = ἱέρειαι, in Hsch. (The Att. stem ὀργεών- may come from ὀργηόν- of which acc. pl. ὀργηόνας (or its corruption ὀργειόνας) may be read in h.Ap. l.c.: prob. cogn. with ὄργια.）
ὀργ-εών , ῶνος (nom. pl. once
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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