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εἰλαπίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰλαπίνη

Structure: εἰλαπιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a feast or banquet

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

  • ]σ ἱππευταὶ κυανώπιδασ ἐκ‐ ] νέασ εἰλα]πίνασ τ’ ἐν ἁμέ]ρ[α]ισ ἕξειν θεόδματον πόλιν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 35:8)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἔπαυσ’ εἰλαπίνασ θεοῖσ βροτείῳ τε γένει, Ζεὺσ μειλίσσων στυγίουσ Ματρὸσ ὀργὰσ ἐνέπει· (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 21)
  • τὰσ θυσίασ καὶ τὰσ λαμπροτέρασ παρασκευὰσ ἐκάλουν οἱ παλαιοὶ εἰλαπίνασ καὶ τοὺσ τούτων μετέχοντασ εἰλαπιναστάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 64 1:1)
  • τὰσ δ’ εἰλαπίνασ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν αὐταῖσ παρασκευῆσ γινομένησ καὶ δαπάνησ, λαφύττειν γὰρ καὶ λαπάζειν τὸ ἐκκενοῦν καὶ ἀναλίσκειν, ὅθεν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ πορθεῖν τὸ ἀλαπάζειν οἱ ποιηταὶ τάττουσι, καὶ τὰ διαρπαζόμενα κατὰ τὴν λάφυξιν λάφυρα, τὰσ δὲ τοιαύτασ εὐωχίασ Αἰσχύλοσ καὶ Εὐριπίδησ εἰλαπίνασ ἀπὸ τοῦ λελαπάχθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 64 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a feast or banquet

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

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