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Λυκαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λυκαῖος Λυκαῖη Λυκαῖον

Structure: Λυκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lycaean, Arcadian
  2. his temple
  3. Mount Lycaeus
  4. the festival of Lycaean Zeus, Lupercalia

Examples

  • οὐ χεῖρον οὖν κἀνταῦθα παραδείγματι χρήσασθαι, ὡσ ἐν τῇ Ἀναβάσει Κύρου φησὶν ὁ Ξενοφῶν, τὰ Λύκαια ἔθυσε. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:15)
  • πάνυ δὲ τοῦτο καινοπρεπὲσ καὶ ἰδία τισ σύνταξισ τὰ Λύκαια ἔθυσε. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:16)
  • θύειν μὲν γὰρ ἐν Λυκαίοισ σύνηθεσ εἰπεῖν, θύειν δὲ τὰ Λύκαια τῆσ καινοπρεπείασ, οἱο͂ν εἰ σὺ λέγοισ, ἔθυσε τὰ Παναθήναια καὶ ἔθυσε τὰ Ὀλύμπια· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:18)
  • τοὔνομα δὲ τῆσ ἑορτῆσ ἑλληνιστὶ σημαίνει Λύκαια, καὶ δοκεῖ διὰ τοῦτο παμπάλαιοσ ἀπ’ Ἀρκάδων εἶναι τῶν περὶ Εὐάνδρον. (Plutarch, chapter 21 3:4)
  • ἢ λύκοσ μὲν ὁ λοῦπόσ ἐστι καὶ Λύκαια τὰ Λουπερκάλια, λύκῳ δὲ κύων πολέμιοσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο θύεται τοῖσ Λυκαίοισ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 68 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. his temple

Related

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

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