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Μεμνόνειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μεμνόνειον Μεμνόνειου

Structure: Μεμνονει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the temple of Memnon

Declension

Second 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

  • οἰκοδομῆσαι δ’ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἄκρασ τὰ ἐν Σούσοισ βασίλεια τὰ διαμείναντα μέχρι τῆσ Περσῶν ἡγεμονίασ, κληθέντα δ’ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου Μεμνόνεια· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 22 3:2)
  • ἀμφισβητοῦσι δὲ καὶ οἱ περὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον Αἰθίοπεσ, λέγοντεσ ἐν ἐκείνοισ τοῖσ τόποισ γεγονέναι τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον, καὶ βασίλεια παλαιὰ δεικνύουσιν, ἃ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ὀνομάζεσθαί φασι Μεμνόνεια. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 22 4:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν Βαβυλωνίων ἢ τὰ Μεμνόνεια τὰ ἐν Σούσοισ τείχη τοῖσ Περσικοῖσ οὔτε εἶδον οὔτε ἄλλων περὶ αὐτῶν ἤκουσα αὐτοπτούντων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. the temple of Memnon

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

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