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Κέκροψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κέκροψ Κέκροπος

Structure: Κεκροπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cecropian, Athenian, the Acropolis, Athens, Attica, the Athenians
  2. the Athenians

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

  • εἶτ’ ἐπειδὰν πέσωσιν, ὅμοιοι μάλιστα φαίνονται τοῖσ τραγικοῖσ ὑποκριταῖσ, ὧν πολλοὺσ ἰδεῖν ἔνεστι τέωσ μὲν Κέκροπασ δῆθεν ὄντασ ἢ Σισύφουσ ἢ Τηλέφουσ, διαδήματα ἔχοντασ καὶ ξίφη ἐλεφαντόκωπα καὶ ἐπίσειστον κόμην καὶ χλαμύδα· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 26:4)
  • ὥστ’ εἴ τισ τῆσ πόλεωσ περιέλοι τοὺσ Ἐριχθονίουσ, τοὺσ Κέκροπασ, τὰ μυθώδη, τὰ τῶν καρπῶν, τὰ τρόπαια τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ καὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ, τοὺσ λόγουσ, τοὺσ ἄνδρασ, πάντα δι’ ὧν τὸν αἰῶνα διεξελήλυθε, σκοποῖτο δ’ αὐτὴν, ὥσπερ τὰσ νῦν φρονούσασ ἐφ’ αὑταῖσ, ἐξαρκεῖν αὐτὴν τοῖσ ὁρωμένοισ νικᾶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 98:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Athenians

Related

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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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