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Ἕλλην

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἕλλην Ἕλληνος

Structure: Ἑλλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks Greek.
  2. one who participates in Greek culture.
  3. often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: gentile
  4. pagan

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

  • εἴθε σε, ἔφη, Ἕλληνα μᾶλλον ἢ Ῥωμαῖον πεποιήκει. (Lucian, (no name) 40:2)
  • ὅπερ Ἕλληνα ὄντα καὶ Ἀθηναῖον οὐκ ἔδει ποιεῖν καὶ ταῦτα οὐ τῶν ἀπερριμμένων ὄντα, ἀλλ’ ὧν ἐν πρώτοισ ἦγον Ἀθηναῖοι στρατηγιῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων τιμῶν ἀξιοῦντεσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 9:2)
  • ἐὰν ταῦτα ποιῇσ, πρὸσ ὀλίγον τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπαιδευσίᾳ ἔλεγχον ὑπομείνασ καὶ μὴ αἰδεσθεὶσ μεταμανθάνων, θαρρῶν ὁμιλήσεισ τοῖσ πλήθεσι καὶ οὐ καταγελασθήσῃ ὥσπερ νῦν οὐδὲ διὰ στόματοσ ἐπὶ τῷ χείρονι τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ ἔσῃ, Ἕλληνα καὶ Ἀττικὸν ἀποκαλούντων σε τὸν μηδὲ βαρβάρων ἐν τοῖσ σαφεστάτοισ ἀριθμεῖσθαι ἄξιον. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 23:1)
  • εἶθ’ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐμὲ τῆσ ὠμότητοσ αἰτιῶνται οὐκέτι λογιζόμενοι παρὰ ποτέρου ἡμῶν ἦν ἡ πρώτη τούτων ἀρχή, συνελόντεσ δὲ τἀν μέσῳ καὶ ἐφ’ οἷσ ἐκολάζοντο τὰσ τιμωρίασ αὐτὰσ ᾐτιῶντο καὶ τὰσ δοκούσασ ἐν αὐταῖσ ὠμότητασ, ὅμοιον ὡσ εἴ τισ παρ’ ὑμῖν ἱερόσυλόν τινα ἰδὼν ἀπὸ τῆσ πέτρασ ῥιπτόμενον ἃ μὲν ἐτόλμησε μὴ λογίζοιτο, ὡσ νύκτωρ ἐσ τὸ ἱερὸν παρῆλθε καὶ κατέσπασε τὰ ἀναθήματα καὶ τοῦ ξοάνου ἥψατο, κατηγοροίη δὲ ὑμῶν πολλὴν τὴν ἀγριότητα, ὅτι Ἕλληνέσ τε καὶ ἱεροὶ εἶναι λέγοντεσ ὑπεμείνατε ἄνθρωπον Ἕλληνα πλησίον τοῦ ἱεροῦ ‐ καὶ γὰρ οὐ πάνυ πόρρω τῆσ πόλεωσ εἶναι λέγεται ἡ πέτρα ‐ κολάσει τοιαύτῃ περιβαλεῖν. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 6:4)
  • οὕτω τι παράλογόν σφισι φανῆναι ἐκ τῶν τοσῶνδε κακῶν Ἕλληνα μὲν ἄνθρωπον ἰδεῖν, Ἑλλάδοσ δὲ φωνῆσ ἀκοῦσαι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 33 5:3)

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