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ἐντάφιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐντάφιος ἐντάφιον

Structure: ἐνταφι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ta/fos

Sense

  1. of or used in burial, a shroud, winding-sheet
  2. offerings to the dead, obsequies

Examples

  • ἐά δέ με αὐτὴν μολοῦσαν ἐντάφια δοῦναι νεκρῷ. (Euripides, Helen, episode17)
  • καὶ σὺ δὲ τὸν πλοῦτον ἀποθέμενοσ, ὦ Κράτων, καὶ τὴν μαλακίαν δὲ προσέτι καὶ τὴν τρυφὴν μηδὲ τὰ ἐντάφια κόμιζε μηδὲ τὰ τῶν προγόνων ἀξιώματα, κατάλιπε δὲ καὶ γένοσ καὶ δόξαν καὶ εἴ ποτέ σε ἡ πόλισ ἀνεκήρυξε καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἐπιγραφάσ, μηδέ, ὅτι μέγαν τάφον ἐπί σοι ἔχωσαν, λέγε· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 10:3)
  • καὶ μέντοι καὶ τάφοσ ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ Φαληροῖ δεικνύμενοσ, ὅν φασι κατασκευάσαι τὴν πόλιν αὐτῷ μηδ’ ἐντάφια καταλιπόντι. (Plutarch, , chapter 27 1:1)
  • ὡσ δόμων ὁρῶ τὴν σὴν ὅμαιμον ἐκ πατρὸσ ταὐτοῦ φύσιν, Χρυσόθεμιν, ἔκ τε μητρόσ, ἐντάφια χεροῖν φέρουσαν, οἱᾶ τοῖσ κάτω νομίζεται. (Sophocles, episode 2:19)

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

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