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Ὑέλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὑέλη

Structure: Ὑελ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Velia

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

  • καὶ γὰρ οὗτοσ τὴν πρότερον μὲν Υἕλην, ὕστερον δ’ Ἐλέαν, Φωκαέων οὖσαν ἀποικίαν, αὑτοῦ δὲ πατρίδα, πόλιν εὐτελῆ καὶ μόνον ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ τρέφειν ἐπισταμένην ἠγάπησε μᾶλλον τῆσ Ἀθηναίων μεγαλαυχίασ, οὐκ ἐπιδημήσασ πώμαλα πρὸσ αὐτούσ, ἀλλ’ αὐτόθι καταβιούσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. e'. ZHNWN ELEATHS 4:8)
  • κάμψαντι δ’ ἄλλοσ συνεχὴσ κόλποσ, ἐν ᾧ πόλισ ἣν οἱ μὲν κτίσαντεσ Φωκαιεῖσ Υἕλην οἱ δὲ Ἔλην ἀπὸ κρήνησ τινὸσ οἱ δὲ νῦν Ἐλέαν ὀνομάζουσιν, ἐξ ἧσ Παρμενίδησ καὶ Ζήνων ἐγένοντο ἄνδρεσ Πυθαγόρειοι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 2:6)

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

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