Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

Ἡφαιστότευκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡφαιστότευκτος Ἡφαιστότευκτον

Structure: Ἡφαιστοτευκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. wrought by Hephaestus

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

  • ὦ Λημνία χθὼν καὶ τὸ παγκρατὲσ σέλασ Ἡφαιστότευκτον, ταῦτα δῆτ’ ἀνασχετά, εἴ μ’ οὗτοσ ἐκ τῶν σῶν ἀπάξεται βίᾳ; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:26)
  • ἀλλὰ τῷ μὲν Ποσειδῶν ἡφαιστότευκτον ὑπὸ γῆν κατεσκεύασεν οἶκον, Ὠρίωνοσ δ’ Ηὢσ ἐρασθεῖσα ἡρ́πασε καὶ ἐκόμισεν εἰσ Δῆλον· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 4 4:1)
  • ἔδωκε δὲ αὐτῇ Κάδμοσ πέπλον καὶ τὸν ἡφαιστότευκτον ὁρ́μον, ὃν ὑπὸ Ἡφαίστου λέγουσί τινεσ δοθῆναι Κάδμῳ, Φερεκύδησ δὲ ὑπὸ Εὐρώπησ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 4 2:5)
  • καὶ Ἀντίμαχοσ ἐν τῇ Λύδῃ Ἡφαιστοτεύκτουσ τοὺσ ταύρουσ ἀπεφήνατο. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other50)
  • Ἄλλοι φασὶν ἡφαιστότευκτον εἶναι αὐτὸν καὶ δοθῆναι πρὸσ τοῦ θεοῦ Πέλοπι γαμοῦντι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. wrought by Hephaestus

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

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