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Ἐλευσίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 그리스 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐλευσίς Ἐλευσῖνος

Structure: Ἐλευσῑν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Eleusis(an old city of Attica, sacred to Demeter and Cora)

Declension

Third 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

  • "αὔριον εἰσ Ἐλευσῖνα τὴν στρατιὰν ἀπάξομεν, ὦ δέσποτα, καὶ διαμαχούμεθα τοῖσ βαρβάροισ ἐκεῖ κατὰ τὸ πυθόχρηστον. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 5:1)
  • τοὺσ βουλομένουσ Ἀθηναίων τῶν ἐν ἄστει μεινάντων ἐξοικεῖν ἔχειν Ἐλευσῖνα ἐπιτίμουσ ὄντασ καὶ κυρίουσ καὶ αὐτοκράτορασ ἑαυτῶν καὶ τὰ αὑτῶν καρπουμένουσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 39 1:2)
  • ἀφ’ οὗ γὰρ ἐπετειχίσθη Δεκέλεια καὶ τῶν εἰσ Ἐλευσῖνα παρόδων ἐκράτουν οἱ πολέμιοι παρόντεσ, οὐδένα κόσμον εἶχεν ἡ τελετὴ πεμπομένη κατὰ θάλατταν, ἀλλὰ καὶ θυσίαι καὶ χορεῖαι καὶ πολλὰ τῶν δρωμένων καθ’ ὁδὸν ἱερῶν, ὅταν ἐξελαύνωσι τὸν Ιἄκχον, ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ ἐξελείπετο. (Plutarch, , chapter 34 3:1)
  • Λυγκεὺσ δ’ ὁ Σάμιοσ ἐν ἐπιστολαῖσ τὰσ καλλίστασ γίνεσθαί φησι ψήττασ περὶ Ἐλευσῖνα τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 139 2:5)
  • διαμένει γὰρ ἔτι νῦν ἐν Ἕρμει, ᾗ βαδίζομεν ἐξ ἄστεοσ εἰσ Ἐλευσῖνα, μηδὲν ἔχων τῶν τριάκοντα ταλάντων ἄξιον, ὅσα τῷ Ἁρπάλῳ λογισθῆναί φασιν εἰσ τὸ ἔργον ὑπὸ τοῦ Χαρικλέουσ. (Plutarch, chapter 22 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. Eleusis

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

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