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Οἰχαλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Οἰχαλία

Structure: Οἰχαλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • ταύτησ ὁ δεινὸσ ἵμερόσ ποθ’ Ἡρακλῆ διῆλθε, καὶ τῆσδ’ εἵνεχ’ ἡ πολύφθοροσ καθῃρέθη πατρῷοσ Οἰχαλία δόρει. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 11:4)
  • Θεσσαλοὶ δὲ καὶ Εὐβοεῖσ, ἥκει γὰρ δὴ ἐσ ἀμφισβήτησιν τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι <τὰ> πλείω, λέγουσιν οἱ μὲν ὡσ τὸ Εὐρύτιον ‐ χωρίον δὲ ἔρημον ἐφ’ ἡμῶν ἐστι τὸ Εὐρύτιον ‐ πόλισ τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἦν καὶ ἐκαλεῖτο Οἰχαλία, τῷ δὲ Εὐβοέων λόγῳ Κρεώφυλοσ ἐν Ἡρακλείᾳ πεποίηκεν ὁμολογοῦντα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 5:1)
  • τοῦ πεδίου δέ ἐστιν ἀπαντικρὺ καλουμένη τὸ ἀρχαῖον Οἰχαλία, τὸ δὲ ἐφ’ ἡμῶν Καρνάσιον ἄλσοσ, κυπαρίσσων μάλιστα πλῆρεσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 8:3)
  • αὐτοῦ δέ που καὶ ἡ Οἰχαλία ἐστὶν ἡ τοῦ Εὐρύτου ἡ νῦν Ἀνδανία, πολίχνιον Ἀρκαδικὸν ὁμώνυμον τῷ Θετταλικῷ καὶ τῷ Εὐβοϊκῷ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 50:13)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Οἰχαλία κώμη τῆσ Ἐρετρικῆσ, λείψανον τῆσ ἀναιρεθείσησ πόλεωσ ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέουσ, ὁμώνυμοσ τῇ Τραχινίᾳ καὶ τῇ περὶ Τρίκκην καὶ τῇ Ἀρκαδικῇ, ἣν Ἀνδανίαν οἱ ὕστερον ἐκάλεσαν, καὶ τῇ ἐν Αἰτωλίᾳ περὶ τοὺσ Εὐρυτᾶνασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 1 14:12)
  • Συβότασ δὲ ὁ Δωτάδα τῷ τε ποταμῷ κατεστήσατο τῷ Παμίσῳ κατὰ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον θύειν τὸν βασιλεύοντα καὶ Εὐρύτῳ τῷ Μελανέωσ ἐναγίζειν ἐν Οἰχαλίᾳ πρὸ τῆσ τελετῆσ τῶν Μεγάλων θεῶν ἀγομένησ ἔτι ἐν Ἀνδανίᾳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 16:3)

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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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