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ἕρμαιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕρμαιον ἕρμαιου

Structure: ἑρμαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a god-send, wind-fall, a gift of the god, a feast of Hermes

Declension

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

  • ἐν Κρήτῃ γοῦν τῇ τῶν Ἑρμαίων ἑορτῇ τὸ ὅμοιον γίνεται, ὥσ φησι Καρύστιοσ ἐν Ἰστορικοῖσ Ὑπομνήμασιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 44 1:3)
  • καὶ τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ τοὺσ εἰσφοιτῶντασ οὕσ τινασ δεῖ εἶναι καὶ ἅσ τινασ ἡλικίασ ἔχοντασ, καὶ ἀρχὴν ἥτισ ἔσται ἡ τούτων ἐπιμελησομένη, καὶ περὶ παιδαγωγῶν ἐπιμελείασ καὶ περὶ Μουσείων ἐν τοῖσ διδασκαλείοισ καὶ περὶ Ἑρμαίων ἐν ταῖσ παλαίστραισ, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον περὶ τῆσ συμφοιτήσεωσ τῶν παίδων καὶ τῶν χορῶν τῶν κυκλίων. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 102)

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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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