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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

  • οὕτωσ οὐδέν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἀμισθὶ ποιοῦσιν ὧν ποιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ πωλοῦσιν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ τἀγαθά, καὶ ἔνεστι πρίασθαι παρ’ αὐτῶν τὸ μὲν ὑγιαίνειν, εἰ τύχοι, βοϊδίου, τὸ δὲ πλουτεῖν βοῶν τεττάρων, τὸ δὲ βασιλεύειν ἑκατόμβησ, τὸ δὲ σῶον ἐπανελθεῖν ἐξ Ἰλίου εἰσ Πύλον ταύρων ἐννέα, καὶ τὸ ἐκ τῆσ Αὐλίδοσ εἰσ Ἴλιον διαπλεῦσαι παρθένου βασιλικῆσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 2:2)
  • καὶ ὁ Ποσειδῶν Αἰθίοπασ μετεκίαθε τηλόθ’ ἐόντασ, ἀντιόων ταύρων τε καὶ ἀρνειῶν ἑκατόμβησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 65 1:2)
  • αἰσθόμενοσ οὖν ὁ Τέμων τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν ὡρ́μησε φεύγειν, καὶ διέφυγεν εὐξάμενοσ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι καθ’ ἑκατόμβησ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 13 2:2)
  • αἰσθόμενοσ οὖν ὁ Τέμων τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν ὡρ́μησε φεύγειν, καὶ διέφυγεν εὐξάμενοσ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι καθ’ ἑκατόμβησ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 13 5:2)
  • οἱή δὲ λιαροῖσιν ἐφ’ ὕδασι Παρθενίοιο, ἠὲ καὶ Ἀμνισοῖο λοεσσαμένη ποταμοῖο χρυσείοισ Λητωὶσ ἐφ’ ἁρ́μασιν ἑστηυῖα ὠκείαισ κεμάδεσσι διεξελάσῃσι κολώνασ, τηλόθεν ἀντιόωσα πολυκνίσου ἑκατόμβησ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:38)

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

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