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ἔνθεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνθεος ἔνθεον

Structure: ἐνθε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having a god in one; possessed or inspired by a god

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἤδη τέχναισιν ἐνθέοισ ᾑρημένη; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:8)
  • ὅθεν δὴ καὶ τὸ τῶν προφητῶν γένοσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἐνθέοισ μαντείαισ κριτὰσ ἐπικαθιστάναι νόμοσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 355:2)
  • καὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον εὐθὺσ ἀναπηδῆσαι πρὸσ τὰ ὅπλα τοῖσ ἐνθέοισ ὁμοίωσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. having a god in one

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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