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Ἐλείθυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐλείθυια

Structure: Ἐλειθυι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for Ei)lei/quia.

Sense

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

  • Ἐλείθυια, πάρεδρε Μοιρᾶν βαθυφρόνων, παῖ μεγαλοσθενέοσ, ἄκουσον, Ἥρασ, γενέτειρα τέκνων· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 1:1)
  • Ἥρη, Ἐλειθυιῶν μήτηρ, Ἥρη τε τελείη, καὶ Ζεῦ, γινομένοισ ξυνὸσ ἅπασι πατήρ, ὠδῖνασ νεύσαιτ’ Ἀντωνίῃ ἵλαοι ἐλθεῖν πρηείασ, μαλακαῖσ χερσὶ σὺν Ἠπιόνησ, ὄφρα κε γηθήσειε πόσισ, μήτηρ θ’, ἑκυρά τε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2441)
  • τὸν μὲν εὐί̈ππου Φλεγύα θυγάτηρ πρὶν τελέσσαι ματροπόλῳ σὺν Ἐλειθυίᾳ, δαμεῖσα χρυσέοισ τόξοισιν ὕπ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, εἰσ Αἴ̈δα δόμον ἐν θαλάμῳ κατέβα τέχναισ Ἀπόλλωνοσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 3:1)

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

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