Ἕλλην
Third declension Noun; Masculine
고유
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
Ἕλλην
Ἕλληνος
Structure:
Ἑλλην
(Stem)
Sense
- Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks Greek.
- one who participates in Greek culture.
- often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: gentile
- 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.
- Συρίαν ἀφ̓ ἡλίου ἀνατολῶν καὶ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἀφ̓ ἡλίου δυσμῶν, τοὺσ κατεσθίοντασ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ὅλῳ τῷ στόματι. ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοισ οὐκ ἀπεστράφη ὁ θυμόσ, ἀλλ̓ ἔτι ἡ χεὶρ ὑψηλή. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 9:12)
- οὔκουν ἠξίου διασπᾶν τὸ πρᾶγμα οὐδὲ κατὰ διαίρεσιν οὕτω κατ̓ ὀλίγον ἀγείρειν καὶ συλλέγειν τὴν γνῶσιν, ἐπεβούλευε δέ, εἰ δυνατὸν εἰή, ἀθρόουσ που λαβεῖν τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἅπαντασ. (Lucian, Herodotus 2:4)
- ἐμβαλὼν ἑαυτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ κρατῆρασ, ὁ δὲ γεννάδασ οὗτοσ, τὴν πολυανθρωποτάτην τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν πανηγύρεων τηρήσασ, πυρὰν ὅτι μεγίστην νήσασ ἐνεπήδησεν ἐπὶ τοσούτων μαρτύρων, καὶ λόγουσ τινὰσ ὑπὲρ τούτου εἰπὼν πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ οὐ πρὸ πολλῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ τολμήματοσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 2:2)
- "οὕτω δὴ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐλθὼν ἄρτι μὲν Ἠλείοισ ἐλοιδορεῖτο, ἄρτι δὲ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἔπειθεν ἀντάρασθαι ὅπλα Ῥωμαίοισ, ἄρτι δὲ ἄνδρα παιδείᾳ καὶ ἀξιώματι προὔχοντα, διότι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ εὖ ἐποίησεν τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ ὕδωρ ἐπήγαγεν τῇ Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ ἔπαυσε δίψει ἀπολλυμένουσ τοὺσ πανηγυριστάσ, κακῶσ ἠγόρευεν ὡσ καταθηλύναντα τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, δέον τοὺσ θεατὰσ τῶν Ὀλυμπίων διακαρτερεῖν διψῶντασ καὶ νὴ Δία γε καὶ ἀποθνήσκειν πολλοὺσ αὐτῶν ὑπὸ σφοδρῶν τῶν νόσων, αἳ τέωσ διὰ τὸ ξηρὸν τοῦ χωρίου ἐν πολλῷ τῷ πλήθει ἐπεπόλαζον. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:44)