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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

  • εἰπέ μοι, ‐ ἐτελέσθησ γάρ, ὦ Κυνίσκε, δῆλον ὅτι τὰ Ἐλευσίνια ‐ οὐχ ὅμοια τοῖσ ἐκεῖ τὰ ἐνθάδε σοι δοκεῖ; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 22:11)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ πεντετηρίδεσ μία μὲν ἡ εἰσ Δῆλον ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἑπτετηρὶσ ἐνταῦθα, δευτέρα δὲ Βραυρώνια, τρίτη δ’ Ἡράκλεια, τετάρτη δ’ Ἐλευσίνια· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 54 7:2)
  • δεύτερα γάρ σφισι νέμω σεμνότητοσ μετά γε Ἐλευσίνια. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 9:2)
  • πάσαισ τοίνυν ταῖσ ψήφοισ προφέρει τὰ Ἐλευσίνια. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 101:5)
  • Παρρασίων τινὰσ τέμενοσ καὶ βωμὸν ἀναστῆσαι Δήμητρι Ἐλευσινίᾳ, ἧσ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ καὶ τὸν τοῦ κάλλουσ ἀγῶνα ἐπιτελέσαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 90 1:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ συγχωρήσαντοσ ἔγημέ τ’ αὐτὴν καὶ ἔθυεν ὑπερχαίρων τῷ γυναίῳ, ὡσ Ἀθηναῖοι τῇ Ἐλευσινίᾳ Δήμητρι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 4:1)

Related

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

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