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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

  • ἦν δὲ ὑπόθεσισ τῷ συγγράμματι ὁ Πυθαγόρασ κωλυόμενοσ ὑπό τινοσ Ἀθηναίων, οἶμαι, μετέχειν τῆσ Ἐλευσῖνι τελετῆσ ὡσ βάρβαροσ, ὅτι ἔλεγεν αὐτὸσ ὁ Πυθαγόρασ πρὸ τούτου ποτὲ καὶ Εὔφορβοσ γεγονέναι. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 5:2)
  • εὐθὺσ οὖν κατὰ τὸν Ἡσίοδον οἶκοσ τὸ πρῶτον, ὡσ ἂν ἐπισημότατα οἰκοίην, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸ ἄστυ πάντα ὠνησάμην ἤδη πλὴν ὅσα Ἰσθμοῖ καὶ Πυθοῖ, καὶ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι ὅσα ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ καὶ περὶ τὸν Ἰσθμὸν ὀλίγα τῶν ἀγώνων ἕνεκα, εἴ ποτε δὴ τὰ Ἴσθμια ἐπιδημήσαιμι, καὶ τὸ Σικυώνιον πεδίον, καὶ ὅλωσ εἴ πού τι συνηρεφὲσ ἢ ἔνυδρον ἢ εὔκαρπον ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι, πάντα ἐν ὀλίγῳ Ἀδειμάντου ἔστω. (Lucian, 35:3)
  • τῇ δ’ Ἐλευσῖνι τί λείπεται καλόν, ἂν αἰσχυνώμεθα τὸν Εὔμολπον, ὃσ ἐκ Θρᾴκησ μεταστὰσ ἐμύησε καὶ μυεῖ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ; (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 3:1)
  • ἐὰν δέ τινεσ τῶν ἀπιόντων οἰκίαν λαμβάνωσιν Ἐλευσῖνι, συμπείθειν τὸν κεκτημένον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 39 3:1)
  • μὴ ἐξεῖναι δὲ ἄρχειν μηδεμίαν ἀρχὴν τῶν ἐν τῷ ἄστει τὸν Ἐλευσῖνι κατοικοῦντα, πρὶν ἂν ἀπογράψηται πάλιν ἐν τῷ ἄστει κατοικεῖν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 39 5:1)

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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