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ἐλαφηβολιών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαφηβολιών ἐλαφηβολιῶνος

Structure: ἐλαφηβολιων (Stem)

Etym.: from e)lafhbo/los

Sense

  1. the Elaphebolia

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν ἐπόμνυται δύο καὶ εἴκοσιν εἰσ τὸν ἐσόμενον Ἐλαφηβολιῶνα τελέσειν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:12)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὸν Ἀνθεστηριῶνα καὶ Ἐλαφηβολιῶνα λέγουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι διότι πέμπει ἡ Βόλβη τὴν ἀπόπυριν Ὀλύνθῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 114)

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

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