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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

  • ὦ Κέκροψ ἡρ́ωσ ἄναξ τὰ πρὸσ ποδῶν Δρακοντίδη, περιορᾷσ οὕτω μ’ ὑπ’ ἀνδρῶν βαρβάρων χειρούμενον, οὓσ ἐγὼ ’δίδαξα κλάειν τέτταρ’ ἐσ τὴν χοίνικα; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, trochees 1:6)
  • "ἐν δὲ Ἀθήναισ πρῶτοσ Κέκροψ μίαν ἑνὶ ἔζευξεν, ἀνέδην τὸ πρότερον οὐσῶν τῶν συνόδων καὶ κοινογαμίων ὄντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 2 1:3)
  • Κέκροψ αὐτόχθων, συμφυὲσ ἔχων σῶμα ἀνδρὸσ καὶ δράκοντοσ, τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ ἐβασίλευσε πρῶτοσ, καὶ τὴν γῆν πρότερον λεγομένην Ἀκτὴν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ Κεκροπίαν ὠνόμασεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 1:1)
  • Κέκροψ δὲ γήμασ τὴν Ἀκταίου κόρην Ἄγραυλον παῖδα μὲν ἔσχεν Ἐρυσίχθονα, ὃσ ἄτεκνοσ μετήλλαξε, θυγατέρασ δὲ Ἄγραυλον Ἕρσην Πάνδροσον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 2:1)
  • γενομένησ δὲ μετὰ <τὴν> σφαγὴν τῆσ μάχησ Ἐρεχθεὺσ μὲν ἀνεῖλεν Εὔμολπον, Ποσειδῶνοσ δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἐρεχθέα καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ καταλύσαντοσ, Κέκροψ ὁ πρεσβύτατοσ τῶν Ἐρεχθέωσ παίδων ἐβασίλευσεν, ὃσ γήμασ Μητιάδουσαν τὴν Εὐπαλάμου παῖδα ἐτέκνωσε Πανδίονα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 4:12)

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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