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Ἀσκληπίειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσκληπίειος

Structure: Ἀσκληπιει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of, belonging to Asclepius, his festival

Examples

  • εἰπόντοσ δέ τινοσ τῶν ἑταίρων, Ἀπίωμεν, Δημῶναξ, εἰσ τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον καὶ προσευξώμεθα ὑπὲρ τοῦ υἱοῦ, Πάνυ, ἔφη, κωφὸν ἡγῇ τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν, εἰ μὴ δύναται κἀντεῦθεν ἡμῶν εὐχομένων ἀκούειν. (Lucian, (no name) 27:1)
  • πλήρησ μὲν ἡ ἄνοδοσ ὠθιζομένων ἐπὶ τὰσ δύο μνᾶσ, ὡσ ἤκουσαν μόνον παρὰ δὲ τὸ Πελασγικὸν ἄλλοι καὶ κατὰ τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον ἕτεροι καὶ παρὰ τὸν Ἄρειον πάγον ἔτι πλείουσ, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸν Τάλω τάφον, οἱ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ Ἀνακεῖον προσθέμενοι κλίμακασ ἀνέρπουσι βομβηδὸν νὴ Δία καὶ βοτρυδὸν ἑσμοῦ δίκην, ἵνα καὶ καθ’ Ὅμηρον εἴπω· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 42:2)
  • νικήσασ δ’ ἐν Σικυῶνι τοὺσ ἀνταγωνιστὰσ ἀνέθηκεν εἰσ τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον τρόπαιον ἐπιγράψασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 451)
  • θῶμεν γάρ τινασ δύο ἐσεληλυθέναι ἐσ τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον ἢ ἐσ τοῦ Διονύσου τὸ ἱερόν, εἶτα μέντοι φιάλην τινὰ τῶν ἱερῶν ἀπολωλέναι. (Lucian, 79:2)
  • ἢ ὅτι τὸν θεὸν ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρου μετάπεμπτον ἥκειν νομίζουσιν, Ἐπιδαυρίοισ δ’ οὐ κατὰ πόλιν ἀλλὰ πόρρω τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖόν ἐστιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 94 1:3)

Synonyms

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

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