Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἀδώνια

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀδώνια

Sense

  1. the mourning for Adonis

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε. δοθήτω δὴ Ἀβισὰγ ἡ Σωμανῖτισ τῷ Ἀδωνίᾳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου εἰσ γυναῖκα. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 2:21)
  • καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν καὶ εἶπε τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἱνατί σὺ ᾔτησαι τὴν Ἀβισὰγ τῷ Ἀδωνίᾳ̣ καὶ αἴτησαι αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλείαν, ὅτι οὗτοσ ἀδελφόσ μου ὁ μέγασ ὑπὲρ ἐμέ, καὶ αὐτῷ Ἀβιάθαρ ὁ ἱερεὺσ καὶ αὐτῷ Ἰωὰβ υἱὸσ Σαρουί̈ασ ἀρχιστράτηγοσ ἑταῖροσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 2:22)
  • ὁ τρίτοσ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ υἱὸσ Μωχὰ θυγατρὸσ Θολμαί̈ βασιλέωσ Γεδσούρ, ὁ τέταρτοσ Ἀδωνία υἱὸσ Ἀγγίθ, (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 3:2)
  • καί σοι τὰ μεγάλ’ ἡμεῖσ Παναθήναι’ ἄξομεν πάσασ τε τὰσ ἄλλασ τελετὰσ τὰσ τῶν θεῶν, μυστήρι’ Ἑρμῇ, Διιπόλει’, Ἀδώνια· (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, antistrophe 1 1:13)
  • "ὃσ οὐκ ἔδωκ’ αἰτοῦντι Σοφοκλέει χορόν, τῷ Κλεομάχου δ’, ὃν οὐκ ἂν ἠξίουν ἐγὼ ἐμοὶ διδάσκειν οὐδ’ ἂν εἰσ Ἀδώνια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:59)

Synonyms

  1. the mourning for Adonis

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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