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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

  • ἱκετεύσαντοσ δὲ Ἀδράστου Θησέα καὶ μάχησ Ἀθηναίων γενομένησ πρὸσ Βοιωτούσ, Θησεὺσ ὡσ ἐκράτησε τῇ μάχῃ κομίσασ ἐσ τὴν Ἐλευσινίαν τοὺσ νεκροὺσ ἐνταῦθα ἔθαψε. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 39 4:3)
  • οἱ γὰρ ἀρχαιότεροι τῶν Ἑλλήνων τελετὴν τὴν Ἐλευσινίαν πάντων ὁπόσα ἐσ εὐσέβειαν ἥκει τοσούτῳ ἦγον ἐντιμότερον ὅσῳ καὶ θεοὺσ ἐπίπροσθεν ἡρώων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 19:5)

Related

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

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