Meravoia 



427 



fieTa(poiTr]ais 



officer who had charge of the penitents in a church ; 

 essentially the same as 6 jTvevfiaTiKos irarrjp. SocR. 5, 

 19, p. 286. 



'0 SyyeXos r^t fifravoiar, Nttnttus poenilentiae, The 

 angel of repentance. Herm. Vis. 5 fin. Mandat. 



4, 2. Eyw, <j>rj(Tiu, firl ttjs fieravoias flfii; Koi rraci TOis 

 ficTavoovat avvfatv didojfii. 



2. It was sometimes used in the sense of imoTrriMTn, 

 the third grade of penitents in the ancient churcli. 

 Basil. Ill, 293 C. 



3. Penance, one of the seven sacraments of the 

 Greek church. Eukhol. init. (The penance-office 

 is entitled 'AKciKovBla tS>v i^o/idKoyoviicvaiv. Ibid. p. 

 221.) 



4. Congee, obeisance, bote, or genujlexion. Apocr. 

 Act. Barn. 6 MeTovoiav fie tSlSav inl tou yoinurw ds 

 T^v ytjv TlavXto* 



In the Ritual, Mi<:/>a itrravoia is nothing more 

 than a reverential congee before a holy object. But 

 iUydXij /leravota, genuJlexion, yorvKkiaia. 



BaXXu lieravotav. To make a congee. To make obei- 

 sance, or To make a genujlexion before any one or 



any thing. LiEIMOX. 1 6 'E^aXtK tw yepovri fifTavotav. I 

 156 Totravras e^aXXev fieravoiai. PORPH. 519, 21 

 Merdvoiac /SoXmv. 



ITotaJ y.eTavoiav, = BaXXci) ytf-dvoiav. AmpHIL. 204 B 

 Hotrjo-ai iierdvotav. ChRTS. XII, 776 A (spurious) 

 Mrra to TTOtrjtrai T^v (tvvt^St} to) npoearSiTi fierdvoLav. 

 Noji. CoTELER. 36. 37 Meravoias irote'w, To do pen- 

 ance by making a "prescribed number oi genuflex- 

 ions. 

 Vleravoia. as, f). Penitentiary, a name given to several 

 monasteries in the vicinity of Constantinople. Proc. 



Ill, 101, 5 *Ef T<u KoXou^eVu Mfrai'Otaff /lovaon^ptA), 



opposite Constantinople on the Asiatic side, where 

 lewd women were shut up. Theopii. 460, 8 To 

 ficCTWoTucov fiovatrnjpiov T^r N«aj Meravola!. 

 fUTa^a, T)s, rj, metaxa, silk, nira^os, fUTa^ov. Ltd. 



169, 8. Proc. I, 106, 7. II, 546, 19. Mexand. 

 295, 23. 302, 9. Theoph. 276, 4. 494, 13. Hes. 



S^pff. fwa vTiBovra fiira^av. H ovofia edvovs odev tp^erai 

 TO 6\o(nipiKOV. 



/ifTa^ov, ov, TO, =: pira^a. DaMASC. I, 622 C. 

 ptra^os, ov, 6, =: pera^a. MaRTTR. AretH. 5. 

 ptTa^i = pfTfmiTO. Barn. 1 3 EKs 8e 'laKu^ TrTrov tw 



irvfvpaTt ToC \aov tov pcra^i, SO. icropivov. ClEM. 



KOM. Epist. 1, 44 UpdyvaxTiv (iX^c^oTcr KaTe<m]<Tav row 



TTpoftpripiiiovs, Ka\ pfTa^v iirivoprjv deSaKOcrtv, UTTas, eav 



Koipri6a<Tiv, hiahi^iovTai frepot, 

 prra^aros, jj, 6v, {pira^a) of silk, silken, irripiKos. PoRPH. 



Cer. 473, 7. 670, 12. Balsam, ad Concil. VII, 16. 



pfTaTrXrjKevQ}, (v<Ta, (dn-XijKfuw) castra commoveo, to trans- 

 fer the camp. Theoph. 595, 16 Eir to. Xi^dSia BeXa 

 ^tTon-XijiceOo-at. PhOC. 200, 7. 



pfTOTTopeiopai, tO piinisfl, pmpxopai. POLTB. 1, 88, 9 

 MeTa77op€i;f (T^at Touf d7T0uri)iTavTas avrwv rrjv v^a-ov. 



pfraaaXeva {<rd\eva>), to disturb. Theoph. Coxt. 767, 9. 



/i€Taer(ciji/o)o-ij, eojy, ^, (peratrKrivoa) change of habitation or 

 residence. Theoph. Coxt. 110, 13. 



peTa<rra(Tipov, ov or otos, to, (pfTaaraais) solemn proces- 

 sion. PoRPH. Cer. 86, 13, et alibi. Adni. 234, 2 

 peracTaaipaTa incorrectly for p(Ta(rra<TtpaTa. TheopH. 



CoNT. 430. 472, 19. 

 peTaa-aats, eo)9, ij, translation, assumption to heaven. 

 Chrts. XII, 702 D. Aster. 173 B. 



[The Greek Church celebrates the translation of 

 Saint John the Evangelist on the twenty-sixth of 

 September. HorOL. Sept. 26 'H pe-d<rraais toO 

 dyiov diTO(rro\ov Koi eiayyeXtarov 'laanov Toi BeoXdyov. 



The notion that this apostle never died is based 

 upon NT. Joan. 21, 23. For the legend, see Apoce. 

 Act. Joan. 15 seq.] 



pcratrreXXopni ((TTf'XXa)), tO send for, prraTrepiropat. Ln- 

 CIAN. Charon sive Contempl. 12 'Ek AvSlas perairriX- 

 Xfadat TO xp^alov, To send to Lydia for gold. Alex- 

 and. 55. 



pxraaTTjpa, arof, to, = peraaratripov. PORPH. Adm. 234, 



2, as a various reading. 



perdrov = pr]TdTOV. XoVELL. 130, 9. COXST. Ill 



933 B as a various reading. 



pfTOTaptov =z prjTOTapiov. PORPH. Cer. 365, 6. Co- 



Dix. 135, 9. 

 p€Ta(f>oiTr](ns, fas. rj, (peTa<t>oiTda>) a passing from one to 

 another. Theoph. Coxt. 337, 22. 



