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Τελχίν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τελχίν Τελχῖνος

Structure: Τελχιν (Stem)

Sense

  1. one of the Telchines
  2. a mischievous elf

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

  • Ποσειδῶνα δὲ ἀνδρωθέντα ἐρασθῆναι Ἁλίασ τῆσ τῶν Τελχίνων ἀδελφῆσ, καὶ μιχθέντα γεννῆσαι παῖδασ ἓξ μὲν ἄρρενασ, μίαν δὲ θυγατέρα Ῥόδον, ἀφ’ ἧσ τὴν νῆσον ὀνομασθῆναι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 55 4:1)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὴν ἐπίκλησιν αὐτῆσ ἔστιν εἰκάζειν ὡσ τῶν ἐν Κύπρῳ ποτὲ οἰκησάντων Τελχίνων ἀφικομένη μοῖρα ἐσ Βοιωτοὺσ ἱερὸν ἱδρύσατο Ἀθηνᾶσ Τελχινίασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 2:5)
  • οἱ δὲ Τελχίνων ἐν Ῥόδῳ ἐννέα ὄντων τοὺσ Ῥέᾳ συνακολουθήσαντασ εἰσ Κρήτην καὶ τὸν Δία κουροτροφήσαντασ Κουρῆτασ ὀνομασθῆναι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 30:8)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο δ’ ἡ Ῥόδοσ πρότερον Ὀφιοῦσσα καὶ Σταδία, εἶτα Τελχινὶσ ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκησάντων Τελχίνων τὴν νῆσον, οὓσ οἱ μὲν βασκάνουσ φασὶ καὶ γόητασ θείῳ καταρραίνοντασ τὸ τῆσ Στυγὸσ ὕδωρ ζώων τε καὶ φυτῶν ὀλέθρου χάριν, οἱ δὲ τέχναισ διαφέροντασ τοὐναντίον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀντιτέχνων βασκανθῆναι καὶ τῆσ δυσφημίασ τυχεῖν ταύτησ, ἐλθεῖν δ’ ἐκ Κρήτησ εἰσ Κύπρον πρῶτον, εἶτ’ εἰσ Ῥόδον, πρώτουσ δ’ ἐργάσασθαι σίδηρόν τε καὶ χαλκόν, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὴν ἁρ́πην τῷ Κρόνῳ δημιουργῆσαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mischievous elf

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

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