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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

  • οὗ μὲν γὰρ ἦσαν εἰλαπίναι καὶ γάμοι, ἑτέρωθι δὲ δικαστήρια καὶ ἐκκλησίαι, καθ’ ἕτερον δὲ μέροσ ἔθυέ τισ, ἐν γειτόνων δὲ πενθῶν ἄλλοσ ἐφαίνετο· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 16:8)
  • ἡδὺ ἐστ’ ἐν δαιτὶ καὶ εἰλαπίνῃ τεθαλυίῃ τέρπεσθαι μύθοισιν, ἐπὴν δαιτὸσ κορέσωνται, Ἡσίοδοσ ἐν τῇ Μελαμποδίᾳ φησίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 134)
  • ἣδιστα δὲ τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ἑορταὶ καὶ εἰλαπίναι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ μυήσεισ καὶ ὀργιασμοὶ καὶ κατευχαὶ θεῶν καὶ προσκυνήσεισ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 9 2:1)
  • τὸν γὰρ ἐν εἰλαπίνῃ φίλον εἴρηκεν τὸν ἐν τῷ δειπνεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 29 2:2)
  • τοῖοσ ἐήν Μίλων, ὅτ’ ἀπὸ χθονὸσ ἤρατο βρῖθοσ, τετραέτη δαμάλην ἐν Διὸσ εἰλαπίναισ, ὤμοισ δὲ κτῆνοσ τὸ πελώριον ὡσ νέον ἄρνα ἤνεγκεν δι’ ὅλησ κοῦφα πανηγύρεωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 4 2:2)
  • οἷσ πλέον ἀρτεμίησ εὐάδεν εἰλαπίνη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 644 2:1)
  • εἰλαπίνη ἠὲ γάμοσ; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 20:6)
  • περὶ δ’ ἄλλοι ἑταῖροι νωλεμέωσ κτείνοντο σύεσ ὣσ ἀργιόδοντεσ, οἵ ῥά τ’ ἐν ἀφνειοῦ ἀνδρὸσ μέγα δυναμένοιο ἢ γάμῳ ἢ ἐράνῳ ἢ εἰλαπίνῃ τεθαλυίῃ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 52:4)

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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