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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

  • καὶ εἰσάγει αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ παιδία εἰσ τὸ οἰκίδιον ὃ ἦν αὐτῷ παρὰ τὸν ψιθυριστὴν Ἑρμῆν, μεταξὺ τῆσ Δωροθέου τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου οἰκίασ καὶ τῆσ Κλεινομάχου, ἣν νυνὶ Σπίνθαροσ παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐώνηται ἑπτὰ μνῶν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 59:1)
  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ πάλιν πρὸσ τοῖσ Ἑρμαῖσ γένωνται περιεληλακότεσ, ἐντεῦθεν καλόν μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι κατὰ φυλὰσ εἰσ τάχοσ ἀνιέναι τοὺσ ἵππουσ μέχρι τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 4:3)
  • πεντεκαίδεκα δὲ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου σταδίουσ ἀφέστηκε Λαπίθαιον καλούμενον ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ ἐγχωρίου Λαπίθου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 10:2)
  • τὸ δὲ δὴ μέγιστον καὶ θειότατον, μόνην γὰρ ταύτην πανηγύρεων εἷσ οἶκοσ συλλαβὼν εἶχε, καὶ ταυτὸν ἦν τῆσ τε πόλεωσ πλήρωμα καὶ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:4)
  • καὶ παρ’ Ἀθηναίοισ Ἑλευσινίου μύστου παιδὸσ εἰκὼν οὐκ ἔχουσα ἐπιγραφήν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 120:2)

Related

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

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