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Ἑκάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑκάτη

Structure: Ἑκατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e(/katos

Sense

  1. Hecate, the far-darter
  2. Hecate's dinner

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ τοῖσ, οἳ γλαυκὴν δυσπέμφελον ἐργάζονται, εὔχονται δ’ Ἑκάτῃ καὶ ἐρικτύπῳ Ἐννοσιγαίῳ, ῥηιδίωσ ἄγρην κυδρὴ θεὸσ ὤπασε πολλήν, ῥεῖα δ’ ἀφείλετο φαινομένην, ἐθέλουσά γε θυμῷ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:18)
  • "τότε δὴ ἥ τε Σελήνη ἀνέπτατο εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἡ Ἑκάτη ἔδυ κατὰ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα φάσματα ἠφανίσθη καὶ τὴν Χρυσίδα ἐξεπέμψαμεν περὶ αὐτό που σχεδὸν τὸ λυκαυγέσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:16)
  • "ἡ Ἑκάτη δὲ πατάξασα τῷ δρακοντείῳ ποδὶ τοὔδαφοσ ἐποίησεν χάσμα παμμέγεθεσ, ἡλίκον Ταρτάρειον τὸ βάθοσ· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 22:5)
  • ὦ φωσφόρ’ Ἑκάτη, πέμπε φάσματ’ εὐμενῆ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 1:5)
  • μνημονεύει αὐτοῦ καὶ Δίφιλοσ ἐν Ἑκάτῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 53 1:5)

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

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