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Ἐλευσίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 그리스 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐλευσίς Ἐλευσῖνος

Structure: Ἐλευσῑν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Eleusis(an old city of Attica, sacred to Demeter and Cora)

Declension

Third 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

  • Δήμητερ ἑστιοῦχ’ Ἐλευσῖνοσ χθονὸσ τῆσδ’, οἵ τε ναοὺσ ἔχετε πρόσπολοι θεᾶσ, εὐδαιμονεῖν με Θησέα τε παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πόλιν τ’ Ἀθηνῶν τήν τε Πιτθέωσ χθόνα, ἐν ᾗ με θρέψασ ὀλβίοισ ἐν δώμασιν Αἴθραν πατὴρ δίδωσι τῷ Πανδίονοσ Αἰγεῖ δάμαρτα, Λοξίου μαντεύμασιν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:1)
  • "Θεσσαλὸσ Κίμωνοσ Λακιάδησ Ἀλκιβιάδην Κλεινίου Σκαμβωνίδην εἰσήγγειλεν ἀδικεῖν περὶ τὼ θεώ, τὴν Δήμητραν καὶ τὴν Κόρην, ἀπομιμούμενον τὰ μυστήρια καὶ δεικνύοντα τοῖσ αὑτοῦ ἑταίροισ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ, ἔχοντα στολὴν οἱάνπερ ὁ ἱεροφάντησ ἔχων δεικνύει τὰ ἱερά, καὶ ὀνομάζοντα αὑτὸν μὲν ἱεροφάντην, Πουλυτίωνα δὲ δᾳδοῦχον, κήρυκα δὲ Θεόδωρον Φηγαιᾶ, τοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ ἑταίρουσ μύστασ προσαγορεύοντα καὶ ἐπόπτασ παρὰ τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τὰ καθεστηκότα ὑπό τε Εὐμολπιδῶν καὶ Κηρύκων καὶ τῶν ἱερέων τῶν ἐξ Ἐλευσῖνοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 22 3:2)
  • "ταὐτὸ δὲ πάθοι τισ ἂν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀθηναίων πόλιν ἀφικνούμενοσ κατὰ τὴν ἀπ’ Ἐλευσῖνοσ τὴν ἱερὰν ὁδὸν καλουμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 67 2:1)
  • ἥ τε πολὺν μύστῃσιν Ἐλευσῖνοσ παρὰ πέζαν εὐασμὸν κρυφίων ἐξεφόρει λογίων, Ῥάριον ὀργειῶνα νόμῳ διαπομπεύουσα Δήμητρα, γνωστὴ δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ εἰν Αἴδῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 2:1)
  • καὶ μέχρι μὲν Ἐλευσῖνοσ προῆλθεν, ἐκεῖ δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἀποδειλιασάντων φανερὸσ γενόμενοσ, καὶ συνταράξασ οὐ φαῦλον οὐδὲ ῥᾴδιον τοῖσ Σπαρτιάταισ πόλεμον, ἀνεχώρησεν εἰσ Θεσπιάσ. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 14 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. Eleusis

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

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