Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἀσκληπίειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσκληπίειος

Structure: Ἀσκληπιει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of, belonging to Asclepius, his festival

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ Ἕλληνεσ ἐν τόποισ καὶ καθαροῖσ καὶ ὑψηλοῖσ ἐπιεικῶσ ἱδρυμένα τὰ Ἀσκληπιεῖα ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 94 1:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ Ἕλληνεσ ἐν τόποισ καὶ καθαροῖσ καὶ ὑψηλοῖσ ἐπιεικῶσ ἱδρυμένα τὰ Ἀσκληπιεῖα ἔχουσιν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 94 1:1)
  • πολλῶν δ’ ἔτι πορθουμένων, καὶ τοῦ κακοῦ μακροτάτου δοκοῦντοσ ἔσεσθαι, προσέφυγον ἐβδόμησ ἡμέρασ αὐτῷ τινεσ ἐστεμμένοι στέμματα Ἀσκληπίεια· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 19 4:2)
  • τὰ γὰρ Ἀσκληπιεῖα εὑρίσκω τὰ ἐπιφανέστατα <γεγονότα> ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. of

Related

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

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