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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

  • 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. 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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