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Διονυσιακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Διονυσιακός Διονυσιακή Διονυσιακόν

Structure: Διονυσιακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to Dionysus

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἤγγελτο πυρπολῶν ὁ θεὸσ ἤδη τὴν χώραν καὶ πόλεισ αὐτάνδρουσ καταφλέγων καὶ ἀνάπτων τὰσ ὕλασ καὶ ἐν βραχεῖ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἰνδικὴν φλογὸσ ἐμπεπληκώσ ‐ ὅπλον γάρ τι Διονυσιακὸν τὸ πῦρ, πατρῷον αὐτῷ κἀκ τοῦ κεραυνοῦ ‐ ἐνταῦθα ἤδη σπουδῇ ἀνελάμβανον τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τοὺσ ἐλέφαντασ ἐπισάξαντεσ καὶ ἐγχαλινώσαντεσ καὶ τοὺσ πύργουσ ἀναθέμενοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀντεπεξῄεσαν, καταφρονοῦντεσ μὲν καὶ τότε, ὀργιζόμενοι δὲ ὅμωσ καὶ συντρῖψαι σπεύδοντεσ αὐτῷ στρατοπέδῳ τὸν ἀγένειον ἐκεῖνον στρατηλάτην. (Lucian, (no name) 3:2)
  • πρὸσ τε τούτοισ ἡμίεργα παραλαβὼν τούσ τε νεωσοίκουσ καὶ τὴν σκευοθήκην καὶ τὸ θέατρον τὸ Διονυσιακὸν ἐξειργάσατο, καὶ ἐπετέλεσε τό τε στάδιον τὸ Παναθηναϊκὸν καὶ τὸ γυμνάσιον τὸ κατὰ Λύκειον κατεσκεύασε, καὶ ἄλλαισ πολλαῖσ κατασκευαῖσ ἐκόσμησε τὴν πόλιν· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , G. 9:1)
  • Βάκχαι δὲ καὶ ἀνθ’ ἱππέων αὐτῷ προϊοῦσαι καὶ τοξοτῶν, τῆσ τε σκευῆσ ἀκόλουθα ἣν ἀρτίωσ ὑμνοῦμεν καὶ ἅμα καὶ τοῦτο ἐπισφραγίζονται ὅτι τῆσ Διονύσου πολιτείασ ἄρα ἦν καὶ γυναικεῖα στρατόπεδα ὁμοῦ τοῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν, καὶ οὐ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ θηλύνειν μᾶλλον ἢ τὰσ γυναῖκασ εἰσ ἀνδρῶν τάξιν καθιστάναι Διονυσιακόν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:4)
  • Διονυσιακὸν δὲ καὶ τὸ σινδονοφορεῖν καὶ τὸ μιτροῦσθαι καὶ μυροῦσθαι καὶ βάπτεσθαι ἄνθινα καὶ τοὺσ βασιλέασ κωδωνοφορεῖσθαι καὶ τυμπανίζεσθαι κατὰ τὰσ ἐξόδουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 116:2)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to Dionysus

Related

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

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