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Ὀρέστεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρέστεια

Structure: Ὀρεστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the tale of Orestes
  2. a temple of Orestes

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

  • " ὁ μὲν δὴ Ἄργοσ τὸ Πελοποννήσιον καὶ Ἄργοσ τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ Ἄργοσ τὸ ἐν Ὀρεστείᾳ ὁ̔́θεν οἱ Ἀργεάδαι Μακεδόνεσ̓ καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ Ιὀνίῳ λεγόμενον οἰκίσαι Διομήδην ἀλώμενον, καὶ εἴ τί που γῆσ ἄλλο Ἄργοσ ἐκαλεῖτο, πάντα ἀνεζήτει καὶ ἐφυλάσσετο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. a temple of Orestes

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

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