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Πηλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πηλεύς

Structure: Πηλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Peleus, of Peleus, son of Peleus

Declension

Third 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

  • ἔριν δ’ ἀγέραστον ἐάσασ οὐ Χείρων ἀλέγιζε καὶ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο Πηλεύσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 117)
  • Ἡ Θέτισ μὲν ἤδη καὶ ὁ Πηλεὺσ ἀπεληλύθεσαν ἐσ τὸν θάλαμον ὑπὸ τῆσ Ἀμφιτρίτησ καὶ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ παραπεμφθέντεσ, ἡ Ἔρισ δὲ ἐν τοσούτῳ λαθοῦσα πάντασ ‐ ἐδυνήθη δὲ ῥᾳδίωσ, τῶν μὲν πινόντων, ἐνίων δὲ κροτούντων ἢ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι κιθαρίζοντι ἢ ταῖσ Μούσαισ ᾀδούσαισ προσεχόντων τὸν νοῦν ‐ ἐνέβαλεν ἐσ τὸ ξυμπόσιον μῆλόν τι πάγκαλον, χρυσοῦν ὅλον, ὦ Γαλήνη· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, panope and galene, chapter 15)
  • ρίαν ἄθυρσιν παρθένοι μέλπουσι τ[εὸν κράτοσ], ὦ δέσποινα παγξε[ίνου χθονόσ, Ἐνδαί̈δα τε ῥοδό[παχυν, ἃ τ[ὸν ἱππευτὰ]ν ἔτ[ικτε Πηλέα καὶ Τελαμῶνα [κρα]τ̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 16:1)
  • νικῶν δ’ ἔφεδρον παῖδ’ ἔχεισ τὸν Πηλέωσ, ὅσ σ’ οὐκ ἐάσει ναυσὶν ἐμβαλεῖν φλόγα, οὐδ’ ὧδ’ Ἀχαιούσ, ὡσ δοκεῖσ, ἀναρπάσαι. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:21)
  • ἐξ ἀφθίτων γὰρ ἄφθιτοι πεφυκότεσ τὸν Πηλέωσ φέρουσι θούριον γόνον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:25)
  • "ὁ Πηλεὺσ ἔτρεφεν ἐνδυκέωσ καὶ σὸν θεράποντ’ ὀνόμηνε. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 47:6)
  • Πηλεύσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 3:17)
  • ὁ Πηλεὺσ δ’ ἔσχε Νηρέωσ κόρην. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 3:18)

Synonyms

  1. Peleus

Related

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

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