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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

  • Ἐλευσινίων δὲ συνοικεῖν οὓσ ἂν οὗτοι βούλωνται. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 39 3:3)
  • τῇ δὲ τῶν Ἐλευσινίων πανηγύρει καὶ τῇ τῶν Ποσειδωνίων ἐν ὄψει τῶν Πανελλήνων πάντων ἀποθεμένη θοἰμάτιον καὶ λύσασα τὰσ κόμασ ἐνέβαινε τῇ θαλάττῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 59 2:3)
  • ὡρ́ῃσιν δ’ ἄρα τῷ γε περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν παῖδεσ Ἐλευσινίων πόλεμον καὶ φύλοπιν αἰνὴν αἰὲν ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν συνάξουσ’ ἤματα πάντα. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 29:6)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπ’ ἐκείνησ κληθεῖσαν Ἀγέλαστον ἐκάθισε πέτραν παρὰ τὸ Καλλίχορον φρέαρ καλούμενον, ἔπειτα πρὸσ Κελεὸν ἐλθοῦσα τὸν βασιλεύοντα τότε Ἐλευσινίων, ἔνδον οὐσῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ λεγουσῶν τούτων παρ’ αὑτὰσ καθέζεσθαι, γραῖά τισ Ιἄμβη σκώψασα τὴν θεὸν ἐποίησε μειδιᾶσαι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 5 1:4)
  • καὶ πολέμου ἐνστάντοσ πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ τοῖσ Ἐλευσινίοισ, ἐπικληθεὶσ ὑπὸ Ἐλευσινίων μετὰ πολλῆσ συνεμάχει Θρᾳκῶν δυνάμεωσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 4:8)

Related

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

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