κάθαρσιν (katharsin)

κάθαρσιν is an Ancient Greek form of κάθαρσις, meaning “purification”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.104.2: … νειαν ἑλὼν ἀνέθηκε τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Δηλίῳ ἁλύσει δήσας πρὸς τὴν Δῆλον. καὶ τὴν πεντετηρίδα τότε πρῶτον μετὰ τὴν κάθαρσιν ἐποίησαν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὰ Δήλια.

Strabo, Geography 1.3.9: ̔η μὲν οὖν ἔφοδος τοῦ κύματος ἔχει τινὰ βίαν ὥστʼ ἀπωθεῖσθαι τὸ ἀλλότριον. καὶ δὴ καὶ κάθαρσίν τινα τῆς θαλάττης ταύτην φασί, καθʼ ἣν καὶ τὰ νεκρὰ σώματα καὶ τὰ ναυάγια εἰς γῆν ἐκκυμαίνεται. ἡ δʼ ἀναχώρησ …

All forms of κάθαρσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.