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Ἐρετριεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐρετριεύς Ἐρετριεῶς

Structure: Ἐρετριευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an inhabitant of Eretria; an Eretrian

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

  • Ἐρετριέασ ἀνδράποδα προσειπεῖν, οὔτε τόλμαν Ἑλλήνων οὐδενὸσ οὔτε φιλοτιμίαν ἐνδεεστέραν παρασχομένουσ καὶ παθόντασ ἀνάξια τῆσ ἀρετῆσ, ἀφείσθω διαβεβλημένων δὲ τῶν Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν, ἐν οἷσ οἱ μέγιστοὶ τε τῶν οἴκων καὶ δοκιμώτατοι τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἦσαν, ἐλάττων λόγοσ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 27 2:1)
  • τί οὖν ποτ’ αἴτιον, θαυμάζετ’ ἴσωσ, τὸ καὶ τοὺσ Ὀλυνθίουσ καὶ τοὺσ Ἐρετριέασ καὶ τοὺσ Ὠρείτασ ἥδιον πρὸσ τοὺσ ὑπὲρ Φιλίππου λέγοντασ ἔχειν ἢ τοὺσ ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν; (Demosthenes, Speeches, 77:1)
  • φασὶ δὲ καὶ τὸ εἰσ τοὺσ Ἐρετριέασ τοὺσ σαγηνευθέντασ αὐτοῦ εἰναι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 35)
  • Φασὶ δὲ καὶ τὸ εἰσ τοὺσ Ἐρετριέασ τοὺσ σαγηνευθέντασ αὐτοῦ εἶναι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 32:1)
  • χειρωσάμενοι δὲ τὴν Ἐρέτριαν καὶ ἐπισχόντεσ ὀλίγασ ἡμέρασ ἔπλεον ἐσ γῆν τὴν Ἀττικήν, κατέργοντέσ τε πολλὸν καὶ δοκέοντεσ ταὐτὰ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ ποιήσειν τὰ καὶ τοὺσ Ἐρετριέασ ἐποίησαν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 102 2:1)

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