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ἕδνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕδνον ἕδνου

Structure: ἑδν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from a(dei=n, h(du/s

Sense

  1. a wedding-gift, portion)
  2. wedding-gifts, by those of her own household

Declension

Second 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

  • ὅπερ οὐδεὶσ πώποτε κατεκρίθη παθεῖν, ἀντὶ θεραπαίνησ, καὶ ταύτησ αἰχμαλώτου, μηδὲν παθούσησ, συνοικίσαι τὴν θυγατέρα ἐπὶ προικὶ μεγάλῃ ἄνευ ἕδνων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:3)
  • κἀγὼ προσέμεινα οὐκ ἀηδῶσ, ἐνθυμούμενοσ ἅμα τῶν πλουσίων ὁποῖά ἐστι τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὰ περὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ, προμνηστριῶν τε πέρι καὶ ἐξετάσεων οὐσιῶν τε καὶ γένουσ, προικῶν τε καὶ ἕδνων καὶ ὑποσχέσεων καὶἀπατῶν, ὁμολογιῶν τε καὶ συγγραφῶν, καὶ τελευταῖον πολλάκισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ γάμοισ λοιδοριῶν καὶ ἀπεχθειῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:1)
  • Δαναῷ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐπὶ ταῖσ θυγατράσιν εὑρέθη, καὶ ὡσ γυναῖκα οὐδεὶσ ἤθελεν ἐξ αὐτῶν διὰ τὸ μίασμα ἀγαγέσθαι, διέπεμπε δὴ ὁ Δαναὸσ ἕδνων ἄνευ δώσειν ᾗ ἂν ἕκαστοσ κατὰ κάλλοσ ἀρέσκηται· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 3:2)
  • πεποίηκε δὲ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ἐν Ἰλιάδι, ὡσ Ἰφιδάμασ ὁ Ἀντήνοροσ τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἕδνων ἑκατὸν βοῦσ τῷ πενθερῷ δοίη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 6:2)
  • " Σαοῦλοσ δὲ ἀγγειλάντων αὐτῷ τῶν οἰκετῶν τὰσ τοῦ Δαυίδου ἀποκρίσεισ "οὐ χρημάτων, ἔφη, δεῖσθαί με φράζετε αὐτῷ οὐδὲ ἔδνων, ἀπεμπολᾶν γὰρ ἔστιν οὕτωσ τὴν θυγατέρα μᾶλλον ἢ συνοικίζειν, γαμβροῦ δὲ ἀνδρείαν ἔχοντοσ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀρετὴν ἅπασαν, ἣν ὁρᾶν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 255:3)

Related

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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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