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ἡβητήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡβητήριον ἡβητήριου

Structure: ἡβητηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from h(bhth/s

Sense

  1. a place where young people meet

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

  • καὶ τὴν Ἥβην δέ τινεσ ἀνέπλασαν οἰνοχοοῦσαν αὐτοῖσ, ἴσωσ διὰ τὸ ἡβητήρια καλεῖσθαι τὰ συμπόσια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 26 1:2)
  • καὶ εἰσ τὰ ἕλεα δὲ καὶ τὰ ἄλση νεμόμενον, ἔτι τε ὅπου πύθοιτο ἡβητήρια εἶναι μεθύσκεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 512)
  • οὔπω δὲ εἰσ Ἰταλίαν ἐπανεληλυθὼσ ἐκέκτητο τῆσ Ῥώμησ τὰ ἥδιστα προάστεια καὶ τῶν ἡβητηρίων τὰ κάλλιστα, καὶ κῆποι πολυτελεῖσ ἦσαν ὀνομαζόμενοι Δημητρίου· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 40 5:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ δὲ θαυμαστωθεὶσ καὶ ἀγαπηθείσ, αὖθισ οὐκ ἐλάττονα φθόνον ἔσχεν, ὅτι πρεσβευταῖσ φίλοισ παραδοὺσ τὰ στρατεύματα καὶ τὰσ ἐπαρχίασ, αὐτὸσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἡβητηρίοισ, μετιὼν ἄλλοτε ἀλλαχόσε, μετὰ τῆσ γυναικὸσ διῆγεν, εἴτε ἐρῶν αὐτῆσ, εἴτε ἐρῶσαν οὐχ ὑπομένων ἀπολιπεῖν· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 53 1:1)

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

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