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ἑρκεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρκεῖος ἑρκεῖον

Structure: ἑρκει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or in the, front court, household, because his statue stood in the
  2. of the court, the court

Examples

  • ξένῳ γὰρ εἰκώσ, παντελῆ σαγὴν ἔχων, ἥξω σὺν ἀνδρὶ τῷδ’ ἐφ’ ἑρκείουσ πύλασ Πυλάδῃ, ξένοσ τε καὶ δορύξενοσ δόμων. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 3:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐξερμηνεύοντεσ εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν τοὔνομα οἱ μὲν Πατρῴουσ ἀποφαίνουσιν, οἱ δὲ Γενεθλίουσ, εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ Κτησίουσ, ἄλλοι δὲ Μυχίουσ, οἱ δὲ Ἑρκείουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 67 5:2)

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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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