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αὔλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὔλειος

Structure: αὐλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to the au)lh/ or court, of the court, outer, house

Examples

  • "ἐστὶν ὁ πρὸσ ταῖσ αὐλείοισ θύραισ ἐφεστὼσ πάλαι καὶ προσβλέπων ἡμῖν; (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 18 5:4)
  • ἡ φίλερωσ Σατύρη δὲ τὸν ἕσπερον οἰνοποτήρων σύγκωμον, κηρῷ ζευξαμένη, δόνακα, ἡδὺν συριστῆρα, σὺν ᾧ πανεπόρφνιοσ ἠῶ ηὔγασεν αὐλείοισ οὐ κοτέουσα θύραισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 206 1:1)
  • καταφανοῦσ δὲ τῆσ πράξεωσ γενομένησ, οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ τέγοσ ἀναβάντεσ, οἱ δὲ ταῖσ αὐλείοισ βιασάμενοι, τόν τε Λόγβασιν καὶ τοὺσ υἱούσ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ πάντασ αὐτοῦ κατεφόνευσαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 76 4:1)

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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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