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Ἑλλάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑλλάς

Structure: Ἑλλαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Hellas
  2. a city of Thessaly, founded by Hellen
  3. part of Phthiotis, inhabited by the Μυρμιδόνες,
  4. Northern Greece, opp. Peloponnesus
  5. Greece, from Peloponnesus to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively
  6. as a general name for all lands inhabited by Hellenes, including Ionia
  7. (adj) Greek

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

  • εἰ γὰρ ἐπιλεξάμενοσ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ καὶ ὀλίγουσ αὐτῶν ὅσοι κορυφαῖοι καὶ ἀναμφιλόγωσ θαυμαστοὶ καὶ ἐπ̓ ἀμφότερα πιστοί, εἰ τούτοισ, φημί, ἐπιδείξαιο τὰ αὐλήματα καὶ οὗτοι ἐπαινέσονταί σε, ἅπασιν Ἕλλησι νόμιζε ἤδη γεγενῆσθαι γνώριμοσ ἐν οὕτω βραχεῖ. (Lucian, Harmonides 5:4)
  • σῴζοιτο δ̓ ἂν καὶ τοῦ βορρᾶ τὰ ὁρμοῦντα πλοῖα, ἀλλ̓ οὐ τοῦ γε ἀπαρκτίου οὐδὲ τοῦ θρᾳσκίου μὲν ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ, σκίρωνοσ δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι καλουμένου. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 4 3:2)
  • ἢ πρόδηλον ὅτι ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 24:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ μανία τὰ γιγνόμενά ἐστιν οὐδ’ ἐφ’ ὕβρει οὗτοι παίουσιν ἀλλήλουσ καὶ κυλίουσιν ἐν τῷ πηλῷ ἢ ἐπιπάττουσιν τὴν κόνιν, ἀλλ’ ἔχει τινὰ χρείαν οὐκ ἀτερπῆ τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ἀκμὴν οὐ μικρὰν ἐπάγει τοῖσ σώμασιν ἢν γοῦν ἐνδιατρίψῃσ, ὥσπερ οἶμαί σε ποιήσειν, τῇ Ἑλλάδι, οὐκ εἰσ μακρὰν εἷσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἔσῃ τῶν πεπηλωμένων ἢ κεκονιμένων οὕτω σοι τὸ πρᾶγμα ἡδύ τε ἅμα καὶ λυσιτελὲσ εἶναι δόξει. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 6:3)
  • ἐπιφανέστατοσ δὲ γενόμενοσ τῶν κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀκμασάντων χρόνον καὶ τοὺσ κρατίστουσ τῶν Ἀθήνησί τε καὶ ἐν τῇ ἄλλῃ Ἑλλάδι νέων παιδεύσασ, ὧν οἳ μὲν ἐν τοῖσ δικανικοῖσ ἐγένοντο ἄριστοι λόγοισ, οἳ δ’ ἐν τῷ πολιτεύεσθαι καὶ τὰ κοινὰ πράττειν διήνεγκαν, ἄλλοι δὲ τὰσ κοινὰσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων πράξεισ ἀνέγραψαν, καὶ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων πόλεωσ εἰκόνα ποιήσασ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σχολὴν κατὰ τὰσ ἀποικίασ τῶν λόγων, πλοῦτον ὅσον οὐδεὶσ τῶν ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίασ χρηματισαμένων περιποιησάμενοσ, ἐτελεύτα τὸν βίον ἐπὶ Χαιρωνίδου ἄρχοντοσ ὀλίγαισ ἡμέραισ ὕστερον τῆσ ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ μάχησ δυεῖν δέοντα βεβιωκὼσ ἑκατὸν ἔτη, γνώμῃ χρησάμενοσ ἅμα τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ τῆσ πόλεωσ συγκαταλῦσαι τὸν ἑαυτοῦ βίον, ἀδήλου ἔτι ὄντοσ, πῶσ χρήσεται τῇ τύχῃ Φίλιπποσ παραλαβὼν τὴν ἀρχὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 1 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. part of Phthiotis

  2. Northern Greece

  3. Greece

  4. Greek

Related

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

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