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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

  • ποῦ δ’ ὁ φιλόσοφοσ Κυνίσκοσ, ὃν ἔδει τῆσ Ἑκάτησ τὸ δεῖπνον φαγόντα καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν καθαρσίων ᾠὰ καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ γε σηπίαν ὠμὴν ἀποθανεῖν; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 6:18)
  • παρὰ τῆσ Ἑκάτησ ἔξεστιν τοῦτο πυθέσθαι, εἴτε τὸ πλουτεῖν εἴτε τὸ πεινῆν βέλτιον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:43)
  • τὴν πήραν ἥκειν θέρμων τε πολλῶν καὶ εἴ που εὑρ́οι ἐν τῇ τριόδῳ Ἑκάτησ δεῖπνον κείμενον ἢ ᾠὸν ἐκ καθαρσίου ἤ τι τοιοῦτον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)
  • Θέρμουσ, εἰ θέλεισ, καὶ τῆσ Ἑκάτησ τὸ δεῖπνον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:5)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ Ἀγροίκῳ Ἑκάτησ βρώματα ἔφη τὰσ μαινίδασ εἶναι καὶ τὰσ τριγλίδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 57 3:5)

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

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