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Κασταλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κασταλία

Structure: Κασταλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. akin to kaqaro/s, Lat. castus.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • Λύκιε καὶ Δάλου ἀνάσσων Φοῖβε, Παρνασσοῦ τε κράναν Κασταλίαν φιλέων, ἐθελήσαισ ταῦτα νόῳ τιθέμεν εὐάνδρόν τε χώραν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 13:2)
  • Πανύασσισ δὲ ὁ Πολυάρχου πεποιηκὼσ ἐσ Ἡρακλέα ἔπη θυγατέρα Ἀχελῴου τὴν Κασταλίαν φησὶν εἶναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 14:3)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ οἰκοῦσι περὶ τὴν κρήνην τὴν Κασταλίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 4:4)

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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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