{"def":{"short":"a looker-on","long":["an overseer, inspector","spectator, eye witness of anything"]},"deriv":"from G1909 and a presumed derivative of G3700","pronun":{"ipa":"ɛpˈo.ptes","ipa_mod":"e̞pˈow.pte̞s","sbl":"epoptēs","dic":"ep-OH-ptase","dic_mod":"ape-OH-ptase"},"see":["G1909","G3700"],"comment":"This was the name given to those who had attained to the third, i.e the highest, grade of the Eleusinian mysteries; these were celebrated annually at Eleusis and Athens in ancient times, in memory of the abduction and return of Persephone and in honor of Demeter and Bacchus."}