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Βακχεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βακχεῖον

Structure: Βακχει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the temple of Bacchus
  2. Bacchic revelry, Bacchic orgies

Declension

Second declension
Singular
Nominative Βακχεῖον
Genitive Βακχείου
Dative Βακχείῳ
Accusative Βακχεῖον
Vocative Βακχεῖον

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 τὴν μὲν Ἀκτέων’ Ἀρισταίῳ ποτὲ τεκοῦσαν εἶδον Αὐτονόην Ἰνώ θ’ ἅμα ἔτ’ ἀμφὶ δρυμοὺσ οἰστροπλῆγασ ἀθλίασ, τὴν δ’ εἶπέ τίσ μοι δεῦρο βακχείῳ ποδὶ στείχειν Ἀγαύην, οὐδ’ ἄκραντ’ ἠκούσαμεν· (Euripides, episode 2:3)
  • ἐπεθύμησε Διονύσῳ Βακχείῳ τελεσθῆναι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 79 1:2)
  • ἐπείτε δὲ ἐτελέσθη τῷ Βακχείῳ ὁ Σκύλησ, διεπρήστευσε τῶν τισ Βορυσθενειτέων πρὸσ τοὺσ Σκύθασ λέγων "ἡμῖν γὰρ καταγελᾶτε, ὦ Σκύθαι, ὅτι βακχεύομεν καὶ ἡμέασ ὁ θεὸσ λαμβάνει· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 79 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the temple of Bacchus

  2. Bacchic revelry

Related

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

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