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Δήλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Δήλιος Δήλιη Δήλιον

Structure: Δηλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Dh=los

Sense

  1. Delian
  2. a Delian
  3. the quinquennial festival of Apollo at Delos

Examples

  • εὔπαισ ὁ Λατοῦσ γόνοσ, τόν ποτε Δηλιὰσ ἐν καρποφόροισ γυάλοισ <ἔτικτε,> χρυσοκόμαν ἐν κιθάρᾳ σοφόν, ἅ τ’ ἐπὶ τόξων εὐστοχίᾳ γάνυται· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 11)

Related

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

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