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Ἡφαίστειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡφαίστειος Ἡφαίστειᾱ Ἡφαίστειον

Structure: Ἡφαιστει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of Hephaestus, temple of Hephaestus, his festival

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τό τε δὴ τοῦ Ἄπιδόσ ἐστιν ἱερὸν παρακείμενον τῷ Ἡφαιστείῳ καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ Ἡφαίστειον πολυτελῶσ κατεσκευασμένον ναοῦ τε μεγέθει καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 61:9)
  • ὁμολογήσασ δὲ ἐξοίσειν τὰσ συνθήκασ ὁ Ἀριστοκλῆσ ἐμφανεῖσ μὲν οὔπω καὶ τήμερον ἐνήνοχεν, εἰσ δὲ τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν συγκειμένην ἀπαντήσασ εἰσ τὸ Ἡφαιστεῖον, προὐφασίζετο ὡσ ὁ παῖσ περιμένων αὑτὸν ἀπολωλεκὼσ εἰή τὸ γραμματεῖον καθεύδων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 24:1)
  • ἰδὼν δὲ Εὔφημον τὸν Καλλίου τοῦ Τηλοκλέουσ ἀδελφὸν ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳ καθήμενον, ἀναγαγὼν αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸ Ἡφαιστεῖον λέγειν ἅπερ ὑμῖν ἐγὼ εἴρηκα, ὡσ ἴδοι ἡμᾶσ ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ νυκτί· (Andocides, Speeches, 73:2)
  • καὶ πρὶν ἡμέραν λαμπρὰν γενέσθαι καταλαβόμενοι τὸ Ἡφαιστεῖον, ἔνθα ἦν ἔθοσ αὐτοῖσ ἐκκλησιάζειν, ἐκάλουν μὲν εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν τὸν δῆμον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 17 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. of Hephaestus

Related

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

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