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φελλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φελλεύς φελλέως

Structure: φελλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. stony ground

Declension

Third 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

  • πολλῷ γάρ ἐσθ’ ἥδιον, ὦ Φαλῆσ Φαλῆσ, κλέπτουσαν εὑρόνθ’ ὡρικὴν ὑληφόρον τὴν Στρυμοδώρου Θρᾷτταν ἐκ τοῦ Φελλέωσ μέσην λαβόντ’ ἄραντα καταβαλόντα καταγιγαρτίσ’ ὦ Φαλῆσ Φαλῆσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, lyric2)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἔφην, ὅταν μὲν οὖν τὰσ αἶγασ ἐκ τοῦ φελλέωσ, ὥσπερ ὁ πατήρ σου, διφθέραν ἐνημμένοσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 3:12)
  • τότε δὲ ἀκέραιοσ οὖσα τά τε ὄρη γηλόφουσ ὑψηλοὺσ εἶχε, καὶ τὰ φελλέωσ νῦν ὀνομασθέντα πεδία πλήρη γῆσ πιείρασ ἐκέκτητο, καὶ πολλὴν ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν ὕλην εἶχεν, ἧσ καὶ νῦν ἔτι φανερὰ τεκμήρια· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 34:2)

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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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