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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Κέκροψ Κέκροπε Κέκροπες
Genitive Κέκροπος Κεκρόποιν Κεκρόπων
Dative Κέκροπι Κεκρόποιν Κέκροψιν*
Accusative Κέκροπα Κέκροπε Κέκροπας
Vocative Κέκροψ Κέκροπε Κέκροπες

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

  • ὥστε θᾶττον ἂν Ἐρεχθέα καὶ τὸν Κέκροπα ξένουσ ἀποφήναισ καὶ ἐπήλυδασ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ἢ τὴν ἀποφράδα δείξειασ οὐκ οἰκείαν καὶ αὐτόχθονα τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 8:4)
  • κατ’ εἰσόδουσ δὲ Κέκροπα θυγατέρων πέλασ σπείραισιν εἱλίσσοντ’, Ἀθηναίων τινὸσ ἀνάθημα· (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:12)
  • "οἶμαι μὲν οὖν καὶ τὸν Κέκροπα διφυᾶ προσαγορεῦσαι τοὺσ παλαιούσ, οὐχ ὡσ ἔνιοι λέγουσιν ἐκ χρηστοῦ βασιλέωσ ἄγριον καὶ δρακοντώδη γενόμενον τύραννον, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ἐν ἀρχῇ σκολιὸν ὄντα καὶ φοβερόν, εἶθ’ ὕστερον ἄρξαντα πράωσ καὶ φιλανθρώπωσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 611)
  • μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἧκεν Ἀθηνᾶ, καὶ ποιησαμένη τῆσ καταλήψεωσ Κέκροπα μάρτυρα ἐφύτευσεν ἐλαίαν, ἣ νῦν ἐν τῷ Πανδροσείῳ δείκνυται. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 1:4)
  • γενομένησ δὲ ἔριδοσ ἀμφοῖν περὶ τῆσ χώρασ, διαλύσασ Ζεὺσ κριτὰσ ἔδωκεν, οὐχ ὡσ εἶπόν τινεσ, Κέκροπα καὶ Κραναόν, οὐδὲ Ἐρυσίχθονα, θεοὺσ δὲ τοὺσ δώδεκα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. the Athenians

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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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