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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

  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα εἰ ἔστιν αὐτῷ Ἀπόλλων Πατρῷοσ καὶ Ζεὺσ Ἑρκεῖοσ, καὶ ποῦ ταῦτα τὰ ἱερά ἐστιν, εἶτα ἠρία εἰ ἔστιν καὶ ποῦ ταῦτα, ἔπειτα γονέασ εἰ εὖ ποιεῖ, καὶ τὰ τέλη <εἰ> τελεῖ, καὶ τὰσ στρατείασ εἰ ἐστράτευται. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 55 3:2)
  • πολλοστῷ δ’ ἔτει ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων οἴκαδ’ ἥκω, συγγενεῖσ καὶ φράτερασ καὶ δημότασ εὑρὼν μόλισ εἰσ τὸ κυλικεῖον ἐνεγράφην, Ζεὺσ ἔστι μοι ἑρκεῖοσ, ἔστι φρατέριοσ, τὰ τέλη τελῶ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 3 2:1)
  • Ζεὺσ δ’ ἡμῖν πατρῷοσ μὲν οὐ καλεῖται, ἑρ́κειοσ δὲ καὶ φράτριοσ, καὶ Ἀθηναία φρατρία. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 411:1)

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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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