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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

  • πολλὰ δὲ τῶν Ξάνθου παραπεποίηκεν ὁ Στησίχοροσ, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν Ὀρέστειαν καλουμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 6 3:2)

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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