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Ἀμφικτυονίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμφικτυονίς

Structure: Ἀμφικτυονιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a state in the Amphictyonic League
  2. a meeting-place of the Amphictyonic Council

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἀμφικτυονίς Ἀμφικτυονίδε Ἀμφικτυονίδες
Genitive Ἀμφικτυονίδος Ἀμφικτυονίδοιν Ἀμφικτυονίδων
Dative Ἀμφικτυονίδι Ἀμφικτυονίδοιν Ἀμφικτυονίσιν*
Accusative Ἀμφικτυονίδα Ἀμφικτυονίδε Ἀμφικτυονίδας
Vocative Ἀμφικτυονίς Ἀμφικτυονίδε Ἀμφικτυονίδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἅμα δ’ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ διεξῆλθον τὴν κτίσιν τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ τὴν πρώτην σύνοδον γενομένην τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων, καὶ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ αὐτῶν ἀνέγνων, ἐν οἷσ ἔνορκον ἦν τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ, μηδεμίαν πόλιν τῶν Ἀμφικτυονίδων ἀνάστατον ποιήσειν, μηδ’ ὑδάτων ναματιαίων εἴρξειν μήτ’ ἐν πολέμῳ μήτ’ ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ἐὰν δέ τισ ταῦτα παραβῇ, στρατεύσειν ἐπὶ τοῦτον καὶ τὰσ πόλεισ ἀναστήσειν, καὶ ἐάν τισ ἢ συλᾷ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἢ συνειδῇ τι, ἢ βουλεύσῃ τι κατὰ τῶν ἱερῶν, τιμωρήσειν καὶ χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ καὶ φωνῇ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1151)

Synonyms

  1. a state in the Amphictyonic League

  2. a meeting-place of the Amphictyonic Council

    • Πυλαία (the autumn-meeting of the Amphictyons at Pylae, the Amphictyonic Council)

Similar forms

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

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