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ἑσπερίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑσπερίς ἑσπερίδος

Structure: ἑσπεριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Hesperides, in the west

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑσπερίς ἑσπερίδε ἑσπερίδες
Genitive ἑσπερίδος ἑσπερίδοιν ἑσπερίδων
Dative ἑσπερίδι ἑσπερίδοιν ἑσπερίσιν*
Accusative ἑσπερίδα ἑσπερίδε ἑσπερίδας
Vocative ἑσπερί ἑσπερίδε ἑσπερίδες

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 δ’ Ἑσπερίδων χρυσέων ἐμνήσατο μήλων· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 126)
  • Ἑσπερίδων δὲ μῆλα οὕτωσ καλεῖσθαί τινά φησι Τιμαχίδασ ἐν δ’ Δείπνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 23 2:4)
  • εὐόσμα δὲ εἶναι καὶ ἄβρωτα, καλεῖσθαι δὲ Ἑσπερίδων μῆλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 23 3:2)
  • τὰ δὲ τῶν Ἑσπερίδων λεγόμενα μῆλα ὅτι ἐσ τοὺσ Διὸσ καὶ Ἥρασ λεγομένουσ γάμουσ ἀνῆκεν ἡ γῆ Ἀσκληπιάδησ εἴρηκεν ἐν ἑξηκοστῷ Αἰγυπτιακῶν, πρὸσ τούτουσ ἀποβλέψασ ὁ Δημόκριτοσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 25 2:1)
  • παρ’ Ἑσπερίδων ᾤμην σε, νὴ τὴν Φωσφόρον, φήσειν τὰ χρυσᾶ μῆλα ταῦτ’ εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 27 1:7)
  • Ἄτλασ δ’ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχει κρατερῆσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ πείρασιν ἐν γαίησ, πρόπαρ Εσπερίδων λιγυφώνων, ἑστηὼσ κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:6)

Synonyms

  1. the Hesperides

Similar forms

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

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