σεβαστός

A. venerable, reverend, august, πρᾶγμα D.H. 2.75; θεοί, prob. of deified Emperors, IG 7.2233 (Thisbe), cf. SIG 820.6 (Ephesus, i A.D.).

II. = Lat. Augustus, Str. 3.3.8, 12.8.16, Act.Ap. 25.21, Paus. 3.11.4, Hdn. 2.10.9, etc.; Καίσαρος Σ. θεοῦ Luc. Macr. 21, cf. 17; ἐπὶ τοῦ πρώτου Σ. in the time of the first Emperor, Id. Laps. 18; κατὰ τὸν Σ. μάλιστα Id. Salt. 34, etc.; fem. Σεβαστή, = Augusta, Wilcken Chr. 14 ii 7 (i A.D.), etc., cf.Σεβαστιάς; joined with Αὔγουστος, ‐ούστη, CIG 3770 (Nicomedia).

2. name of month, Augustus, in Egyptian calendars,= Thoth, Yale Classical Studies 2.242; in Phrygia and elsewhere, IGRom. 4.536, etc.

3. σεβαστή, ἡ (sc. ἡμέρα), the Emperor's day, the day on which his birthday or accession day was celebrated every month, OGI 658 (Egypt, i B.C.), POxy. 288.32 (i A.D.), PMich.Teb. 123r iv 30 (i A.D.), etc.

4. Σεβαστά,τά,= Σεβαστεῖα 11, CIG 2810 b. 13 (p.1112) (Aphrodisias), cf. IG 3.129, 14.748, SIG 1065.5 (Cos, i A.D.).