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ἑκατόμβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑκατόμβη

Structure: ἑκατομβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e(kato/n, bou=s

Sense

  1. an offering of a hundred oxen, - , a great public sacrifice, twelve, eighty-one.

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑκατόμβη ἑκατόμβᾱ ἑκατόμβαι
Genitive ἑκατόμβης ἑκατόμβαιν ἑκατομβῶν
Dative ἑκατόμβῃ ἑκατόμβαιν ἑκατόμβαις
Accusative ἑκατόμβην ἑκατόμβᾱ ἑκατόμβᾱς
Vocative ἑκατόμβη ἑκατόμβᾱ ἑκατόμβαι

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

  • ὁ δ’ οὐδὲν μελλήσασ ὁ συνετώτατοσ Ῥουτιλιανὸσ ἔπεμπεν εὐθὺσ ἐπὶ τὴν κόρην καὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ συνετέλει ἑξηκοντούτησ νυμφίοσ καὶ συνῆν, τὴν πενθερὰν Σελήνην ἑκατόμβαισ ὅλαισ ἱλασκόμενοσ καὶ τῶν ἐπουρανίων εἷσ καὶ αὐτὸσ οἰόμενοσ γεγονέναι. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 35:5)

Similar forms

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

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