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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

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

  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὰ κεφάλαια ταῦτα τῆσ διοικήσεωσ, ὑετοὺσ καὶ χαλάζασ καὶ πνεύματα καὶ ἀστραπὰσ αὐτὸσ οἰκονομησάμενοσ καὶ διατάξασ πέπαυμαι τῶν ἐπί μέρουσ φροντίδων ἀπηλλαγμένοσ, ἀλλά με δεῖ καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ποιεῖν ἀποβλέπειν δὲ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ἁπανταχόσε καὶ πάντα ἐπισκοπεῖν ὥσπερ τὸν ἐν τῇ Νεμέᾳ βουκόλον, τοὺσ κλέπτοντασ, τοὺσ ἐπιορκοῦντασ, τοὺσ θύοντασ, εἴ τισ ἔσπεισε, πόθεν ἡ κνῖσα καὶ ὁ καπνὸσ ἀνέρχεται, τίσ νοσῶν ἢ πλέων ἐκάλεσεν, καὶ τὸ πάντων ἐπιπονώτατον, ὑφ’ ἕνα καιρὸν ἒν τε Ὀλυμπίᾳ τῇ ἑκατόμβῃ παρεῖναι καὶ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι τοὺσ πολεμοῦντασ ἐπισκοπεῖν καὶ ἐν Γέταισ χαλαζᾶν καὶ ἐν Αἰθίοψιν εὐωχεῖσθαι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 2:5)
  • πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:5)
  • χόνδροσ μετὰ ταῦτ’ εἰσῆλθε, μύρον Αἰγύπτιον, φοινικίνου βῖκόσ τισ ὑπανεῴγνυτο, ἴτρια, τραγήμαθ’ ἧκε, πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 502)
  • οὐδ’ ἑκατόμβη τόσσον ὅσον τιμὴ δαίμοσιν ἁνδάνεται. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 7 1:2)
  • κεράμιόν τε γὰρ πωλοῦσι τιμῆσ, ὅσην οὐκ ἂν ἑκατόμβη βούπρῳροσ ἄλφοι κατακοπεῖσα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 10:14)

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

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