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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

  • ὅτε τὸν Ὀρφέα διεσπάσαντο αἱ Θρᾷτται, φασὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ σὺν τῇ λύρᾳ εἰσ τὸν Ἕβρον ἐμπεσοῦσαν ἐκβληθῆναι εἰσ τὸν μέλανα κόλπον, καὶ ἐπιπλεῖν γε τὴν κεφαλὴν τῇ λύρᾳ, τὴν μὲν ᾄδουσαν θρῆνόν τινα ἐπὶ τῷ Ὀρφεῖ, ὡσ λόγοσ,^ τὴν λύραν δὲ αὐτὴν ὑπηχεῖν τῶν ἀνέμων ἐμπιπτόντων ταῖσ χορδαῖσ, καὶ οὕτω μετ’ ᾠδῆσ προσενεχθῆναι τῇ Λέσβῳ, κἀκείνουσ ἀνελομένουσ τὴν μὲν κεφαλὴν καταθάψαι ἵναπερ νῦν τὸ Βακχεῖον αὐτοῖσ ἐστι, τὴν λύραν δὲ ἀναθεῖναι εἰσ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ τὸ ἱερόν, καὶ ἐπὶ πολύ γε σώζεσθαι αὐτήν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 11:2)
  • μῶν τὸ βακχεῖον κάρα τῆσ θεσπιῳδοῦ δεῦρο Κασάνδρασ φέρεισ; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode13)
  • ὦ τέκνον τέκνον, αἰαῖ, κατάρχομαι γόων, βακχεῖον ἐξ ἀλάστοροσ ἀρτιμαθῆ νόμον. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:3)
  • ἔτ’ αὐτὸν ὄψῃ κἀπὶ Δελφίσιν πέτραισ πηδῶντα σὺν πεύκαισι δικόρυφον πλάκα, πάλλοντα καὶ σείοντα βακχεῖον κλάδον, μέγαν τ’ ἀν’ Ἑλλάδα. (Euripides, episode 11:7)
  • αἳ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν θύρσον ἐκλελοιπότα κισσῷ κομήτην αὖθισ ἐξανέστεφον, αἳ δ’, ἐκλιποῦσαι ποικίλ’ ὡσ πῶλοι ζυγά, βακχεῖον ἀντέκλαζον ἀλλήλαισ μέλοσ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:3)

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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