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Νηλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νηλεύς Νηλέως

Structure: Νηλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Νηλεύς Νηλή Νηλής
Genitive Νηλέως Νηλέοιν Νηλέων
Dative Νηλεί Νηλέοιν Νηλεῦσιν*
Accusative Νηλέα Νηλή Νηλέᾱς
Vocative Νηλεύ Νηλή Νηλής

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

  • ἦν δέ, φησί, καὶ βιβλίων κτῆσισ αὐτῷ ἀρχαίων Ἑλληνικῶν τοσαύτη ὡσ ὑπερβάλλειν πάντασ τοὺσ ἐπὶ συναγωγῇ τεθαυμασμένουσ, Πολυκράτην τε τὸν Σάμιον καὶ Πεισίστρατον τὸν Ἀθηναίων τυραννήσαντα Εὐκλείδην τε τὸν καὶ αὐτὸν Ἀθηναῖον καὶ Νικοκράτην τὸν Κύπριον ἔτι τε τοὺσ Περγάμου βασιλέασ Εὐριπίδην τε τὸν ποιητὴν Ἀριστοτέλην τε τὸν φιλόσοφον καὶ Θεόφραστον καὶ τὸν τὰ τούτων διατηρήσαντα βιβλία Νηλέα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4 3:1)
  • "οὐ γὰρ Ἀντίγονόσ γε διὰ Δημήτριον οὐδὲ τῶν ποθ’ ἡρώων Φυλεὺσ δι’ Αὐγέαν οὐδὲ Νέστωρ διὰ Νηλέα δίκασ ἔδωκεν· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 217)
  • καί που ἐγὼ τούτῳ τίσω ποτὲ νηλέα φώρην, καὶ κρατερῷ περ ἐόντι· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:12)
  • τὸν δὲ ταύρῳ χαλκέῳ καυτῆρα νηλέα νόον ἐχθρὰ Φάλαριν κατέχει παντᾷ φάτισ, οὐδέ νιν φόρμιγγεσ ὑπωρόφιαι κοινωνίαν μαλθακὰν παίδων ὀάροισι δέκονται. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 33:2)
  • νηλέα δὲ γένεθλα πρὸσ πέδῳ θαναταφόρα κεῖται ἀνοίκτωσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 22)

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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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