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Ἡραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡραῖος Ἡραῖη Ἡραῖον

Structure: Ἡραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from H(/ra

Sense

  1. of Hera, the temple of Hera, Heraeum

Examples

  • οἱ δ’ ἐν τῷ Ἡραίῳ καταπεφευγότεσ ἐξῇσαν, ἐπιτρέψοντεσ Ἀγησιλάῳ γνῶναι ὅ τι βούλοιτο περὶ σφῶν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 6:4)
  • καλλιερευμένῳ δὲ ἐν τῷ Ἡραίῳ ἐκ τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ τῶν στηθέων φλόγα πυρὸσ ἐκλάμψαι, μαθεῖν δὲ αὐτὸσ οὕτω τὴν ἀτρεκείην, ὅτι οὐκ αἱρέει τὸ Ἄργοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 82 3:1)
  • αἱ δὲ Ἑσπερίδεσ ‐ μετεκινήθησαν γὰρ ὑπὸ Ἠλείων ‐ αὗται μὲν ἔτι καὶ ἐσ ἐμὲ ἦσαν ἐν τῷ Ἡραίῳ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 13:3)
  • αὕτη παρὰ τὰσ Ἑσπερίδασ ἀνάκειται νῦν τὰσ ἐν τῷ Ἡραίῳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 21:4)
  • Σάμιοι δὲ αὐτοὶ τεχθῆναι νομίζουσιν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ τὴν θεὸν παρὰ τῷ Ἰμβράσῳ ποταμῷ καὶ ὑπὸ τῇ λύγῳ τῇ ἐν τῷ Ἡραίῳ κατ’ ἐμὲ ἔτι πεφυκυίᾳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 7:2)

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

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