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Ἐλευσίνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐλευσίνιος Ἐλευσίνιᾱ Ἐλευσίνιον

Structure: Ἐλευσινι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from E)leusi/s

Sense

  1. of Eleusis

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

  • καίτοι ἐν ἀρχῇ προσέκρουε τοῖσ πολλοῖσ αὐτῶν καὶ μῖσοσ οὐ μεῖον τοῦ πρὸ αὑτοῦ παρὰ τοῖσ πλήθεσιν ἐκτήσατο ἐπί τε τῇ παρρησίᾳ καὶ ἐλευθερίᾳ, καί τινεσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν συνέστησαν Ἄνυτοι καὶ Μέλητοι τὰ αὐτὰ κατηγοροῦντεσ ἅπερ κἀκείνου οἱ τότε, ὅτι οὔτε θύων ὤφθη πώποτε οὔτε ἐμυήθη μόνοσ ἁπάντων ταῖσ Ἐλευσινίαισ· (Lucian, (no name) 11:2)
  • κήρυκεσ δὲ καὶ Εὐμολπίδαι πάρεδρον Ἐλευσινίαισ αὐτὸν ἐστήσαντο, καρπῶν ἔφορον καὶ τροφῆσ ἀνθρώποισ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:9)

Related

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

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