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Ὀρέστειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρέστειος Ὀρέστειᾱ Ὀρέστειον

Structure: Ὀρεστει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of Orestes

Examples

  • πάνυ γοῦν ἐναργῶσ ἐπέδειξασ ἡμῖν τὰσ ἐν τῷ Ὀρεστείῳ εἰκόνασ καὶ τὴν μάχην τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ τὰ ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων τραύματα, πλὴν ἀλλ’ οὐκ ᾠήθην ἂν οὕτω ποτὲ περισπούδαστον εἶναι φιλίαν ἐν Σκύθαισ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 8:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν ἐγκαλῶν ὁ Ἀριστείδησ προσῆλθεν, οἱ δὲ σὺν γέλωτι ληρεῖν αὐτὸν ἔφασκον καὶ καθεύδειν, ἤδη γὰρ ἐν Ὀρεστείῳ τὸν στρατὸν εἶναι πορευόμενον ἐπὶ τοὺσ ξένουσ ξένουσ γὰρ ἐκάλουν τοὺσ Πέρσασ, οὐ κατὰ καιρὸν ἔφη παίζειν αὐτοὺσ ὁ Ἀριστείδησ, ἀντὶ τῶν πολεμίων τοὺσ φίλουσ ἐξαπατῶντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 7:4)
  • καὶ δηχθεὶσ ὑπὸ ὄφεωσ ἐν Ὀρεστείῳ τῆσ Ἀρκαδίασ θνήσκει. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 49:1)

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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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