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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

  • ἰχθῦσ μὲν γὰρ ἱστορεῖ Θεόφραστοσ ὑπὸ ῥίγουσ πεπηγότασ, ἂν ἀφεθῶσιν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, κατάγνυσθαι καὶ συντρίβεσθαι δίκην ὑελῶν ἢ κεραμεῶν σωμάτων. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 18 1:3)
  • καὶ οὗτοι μὲν τῶν Φωκαιέων τοιούτῳ μόρῳ διεχρήσαντο, οἱ δὲ αὐτῶν ἐσ τὸ Ῥήγιον καταφυγόντεσ ἐνθεῦτεν ὁρμώμενοι ἐκτήσαντο πόλιν γῆσ τῆσ Οἰνωτπίησ ταύτην ἥτισ νῦν Υἕλη καλέεται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 167 4:1)

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

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