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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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν, ὥσπερ τὸν Παρθενῶνα καὶ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον, οὕτω καὶ τὸ Θησεῖον ἅπαντασ προσκυνοῦντασ; (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 1:1)
  • οἱ δὲ πρυτάνεισ προσάξειν ἔφασαν αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὴν βουλήν, ἐπαγγεῖλαί τ’ ἐκέλευον ἐμοί τε καὶ Κηφισίῳ παρεῖναι εἰσ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον· (Andocides, Speeches, 181:2)
  • ἀλλὰ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, διὰ τί ποτε τοῖσ ἐμοὶ νυνὶ ἐπιτιθεμένοισ μετὰ Καλλίου καὶ συμπαρασκευάσασι τὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ χρήματα εἰσενεγκοῦσιν ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ τρία μὲν ἔτη ἐπιδημῶν καὶ ἥκων ἐκ Κύπρου οὐκ ἀσεβεῖν ἐδόκουν αὐτοῖσ, μυῶν μὲν Ἀ Δελφόν, ἔτι δὲ ἄλλουσ ξένουσ ἐμαυτοῦ, καὶ εἰσιὼν εἰσ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον καὶ θύων, ὥσπερ ἐμαυτὸν ἄξιον νομίζω εἶναι· (Andocides, Speeches, 213:1)
  • τὸ μετὰ ταῦτα τοίνυν πῶσ οὐκ ἄτοπον καὶ δεινόν ἐστιν, ἅμα παρακαταβεβληκέναι τοῦ κλήρου πρὸσ τῷ ἄρχοντι ὡσ ὄντα αὐτὸν Ἀρχιάδου Λεώστρατον τουτονί, τὸν Ἐλευσίνιον τοῦ Ὀτρυνέωσ, διαμεμαρτυρηκέναι δ’ ἕτερον, ὡσ αὐτοὶ ὁρᾶτε, φάσκοντα καὶ τοῦτον Ἀρχιάδου υἱὸν εἶναι; (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 62:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ παρελθὼν τὸν νόμον ὃν ὑμεῖσ ἔθεσθε, εἴργεσθαι τῶν ἱερῶν αὐτὸν ὡσ ἀλιτήριον ὄντα, ταῦτα πάντα βιασάμενοσ εἰσελήλυθεν ἡμῶν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἔθυσεν ἐπὶ τῶν βωμῶν ὧν οὐκ ἐξῆν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπήντα τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ περὶ ἃ ἠσέβησεν, εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον, ἐχερνίψατο ἐκ τῆσ ἱερᾶσ χέρνιβοσ. (Lysias, Speeches, 66:2)

Related

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

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