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Ἐρεχθεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐρεχθεύς

Structure: Ἐρεχθευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the render

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

  • αἱ θυγατέρεσ Ἐρεχθέωσ τῷ καλῷ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ τὸ θῆλυ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἐνίκησαν, καὶ τὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀσθενὲσ ἔπανδρον ἐποίησεν ἡ πρὸσ τὸ θρέψαν ἔδαφοσ φιλοστοργία. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 37:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ τὴν Μηδείασ ὑποδοχὴν καὶ αὖθισ ἐσ Πέρσασ φυγὴν καὶ τὰσ Ἐρεχθέωσ θυγατέρασ καὶ τὰσ Πανδίονοσ, ἅ τε ἐν Θρᾴκῃ ἔπαθον καὶ ἔπραξαν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 40:3)
  • οἶμαι δέ σε καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ σκηνῆσ πολλάκισ ἑωρακέναι τοὺσ τραγικοὺσ ὑποκριτὰσ τούτουσ πρὸσ τὰσ χρείασ τῶν δραμάτων ἄρτι μὲν Κρέοντασ, ἐνίοτε δὲ Πριάμουσ γιγνομένουσ ἢ Ἀγαμέμνονασ, καὶ ὁ αὐτόσ, εἰ τύχοι, μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν μάλα σεμνῶσ τὸ τοῦ Κέκροποσ ἢ Ἐρεχθέωσ σχῆμα μιμησάμενοσ μετ’ ὀλίγον οἰκέτησ προῆλθεν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ κεκελευσμένοσ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 16:8)
  • ἔστιν γὰρ οὐκ ἄσημοσ Ἑλλήνων πόλισ, τῆσ χρυσολόγχου Παλλάδοσ κεκλημένη, οὗ παῖδ’ Ἐρεχθέωσ Φοῖβοσ ἔζευξεν γάμοισ βίᾳ Κρέουσαν, ἔνθα προσβόρρουσ πέτρασ Παλλάδοσ ὑπ’ ὄχθῳ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων χθονὸσ Μακρὰσ καλοῦσι γῆσ ἄνακτεσ Ἀτθίδοσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:1)
  • Κρέουσα μέν μοι τοὔνομ’, ἐκ δ’ Ἐρεχθέωσ πέφυκα, πατρὶσ γῆ δ’ Ἀθηναίων πόλισ. (Euripides, Ion, episode22)

Synonyms

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Related

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

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