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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

  • σύνδικοσ δ’ αὐτῷ Ιὀλάου τύμβοσ εἰναλία τ’ Ἐλευσὶσ ἀγλαί̈αισιν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 25:2)
  • Πέλλανά τε καὶ Σικυὼν καὶ Μέγαρ’ Αἰακιδᾶν τ’ εὐερκὲσ ἄλσοσ, ἅ τ’ Ἐλευσὶσ καὶ λιπαρὰ Μαραθών, ταί θ’ ὑπ’ Αἴτνασ ὑψιλόφου καλλίπλουτοι πόλιεσ, ἅ τ’ Εὔβοια· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 30:1)
  • ὦ πάλαι ποτὲ ἡδίων ᾄδειν Ἐλευσὶσ ἐμοὶ τίσ Ὀρφεὺσ ἢ Θάμυρισ ἢ ποῖοσ Ἐλευσίνιοσ οἰκήτωρ Μουσαῖοσ ἀρκέσει τοσούτῳ πράγματι; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:1)
  • πολέμου δὲ συμβάντοσ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ πολλοῦ καὶ πάντων ἄνω καὶ κάτω γενομένων, μόνη δὴ τρόπον γέ τινα Ἐλευσὶσ ἠρέμει· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:3)
  • εἰ δέ τισ τὸ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ὄνομα ἢ τὰ σεμνὰ τῆσ χώρασ ἐν αἰδοῖ ποιεῖται, καὶ δεινὸν αὐτῷ τι φαίνεται καὶ σχέτλιον τὴν ἐπ’ Εὐρώτᾳ γῆν πειραθῆναι πολεμίων ἐμβολῆσ, οὐδὲν ἀτιμοτέρα τῶν παρ’ ἐκείνοισ τόπων Ἐλευσὶσ αὕτη, τὸ Θριάσιον, Ἀχαρναὶ, τὰ ἄλλα ὅσα μυριάκισ κατατέτμηται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 19:11)
  • " ὁ δὲ περιενεγκὼν τὴν φιάλην τοῦ Βαθυκλέουσ παῖσ Θυρίων ἐκαλεῖτο, καθά φησιν Ἔλευσισ ἐν τῷ Περὶ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ Ἀλέξων ὁ Μύνδιοσ ἐν ἐνάτῳ Μυθικῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 8:5)

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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