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Ἀσκληπιεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσκληπιεῖον

Structure: Ἀσκληπιει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the temple of Asclepius

Declension

Second declension

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

  • καὶ ἀναθεὶσ δακτύλιον χαλκοῦν ἐν τῷ Ἀσκληπιείῳ τοῦτον ἐκτρίβειν στεφανοῦν ἀλείφειν ὁσημέραι. (Theophrastus, Characters, 10:2)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἐρατοσθένησ καὶ τοὐπίγραμμα προφέρεται τὸ ἐν τῷ Ἀσκληπιείῳ τῷ Παντικαπαιέων ἐπὶ τῇ ῥαγείσῃ χαλκῇ ὑδρίᾳ διὰ τὸν πάγον "εἴ τισ ἄρ’ ἀνθρώπων μὴ πείθεται οἱᾶ παρ’ ἡμῖν γίγνεται, εἰσ "τήνδε γνώτω ἰδὼν ὑδρίαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 30:5)

Synonyms

  1. the temple of Asclepius

Related

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

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