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ἡλιαία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡλιαία

Structure: ἡλιαι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a public place or hall
  2. the supreme court

Declension

First 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

  • ἐὰν δ’ ἁλῷ, τιμάτω ἡ ἡλιαία περὶ τοῦ ἁλόντοσ, ὅ τι χρὴ αὐτὸν παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 116:3)
  • "δεδέσθαι δ’ ἐν τῇ ποδοκάκκῃ ἡμέρασ πέντε τὸν πόδα, ἐὰν μὴ προστιμήσῃ ἡ ἡλιαία. (Lysias, Speeches, 21:1)
  • ὅτου δ’ ἂν καταγνῷ ἡ ἡλιαία, τιμάτω περὶ αὐτοῦ παραχρῆμα, ὅτου ἂν δοκῇ ἄξιοσ εἶναι παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 61:1)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ἁλῷ, τιμάτω ἡ ἡλιαία περὶ αὐτοῦ ὅ τι ἂν δοκῇ ἄξιοσ εἶναι παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 97:3)
  • δεδέσθαι δ’ ἐν τῇ ποδοκάκκῃ τὸν πόδα πένθ’ ἡμέρασ καὶ νύκτασ ἴσασ, ἐὰν προστιμήσῃ ἡ ἡλιαία. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 159:1)
  • ἐπίτηδεσ οὗτοσ αὐτὸν ἔσπευδ’ ἄξιον γενέσθαι, ἵν’ ἐσθίοιτ’ ὠνούμενοι, κἄπειτ’ ἐν ἡλιαίᾳ βδέοντεσ ἀλλήλουσ ἀποκτείνειαν οἱ δικασταί. (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme 1:12)
  • "ἔτι δὲ καὶ ψηφίσματα γράφων καὶ συμβουλεύων καὶ στρατηγῶν οὐ μικρὰ ὠφέλησε τὴν πόλιν ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἅπασι δεδόχθω τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ καὶ τῇ Ἡλιαίᾳ καὶ ταῖσ φυλαῖσ καὶ τοῖσ δήμοισ ἰδίᾳ καὶ κοινῇ πᾶσι χρυσοῦν ἀναστῆσαι τὸν Τίμωνα παρὰ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει κεραυνὸν ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ ἔχοντα καὶ ἀκτῖνασ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ στεφανῶσαι αὐτὸν χρυσοῖσ στεφάνοισ ἑπτὰ καὶ ἀνακηρυχθῆναι τοὺσ στεφάνουσ τήμερον Διονυσίοισ τραγῳδοῖσ καινοῖσ ‐ ἀχθῆναι γὰρ δι’ αὐτὸν δεῖ τήμερον τὰ Διονύσια. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 50:4)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ δίαιτα ἐν τῇ ἡλιαίᾳ ἦν οἱ γὰρ τὴν Οἰνῇδα καὶ τὴν Ἐρεχθῇδα διαιτῶντεσ ἐνταῦθα κάθηνται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. a public place or hall

  2. the supreme court

Related

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

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