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ἡλιάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡλιάς ἡλιάδος

Structure: ἡλιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. of the sun

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

  • ὁ δ’ ἀληθὴσ λόγοσ ὅτι κατὰ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ σύστασιν τῆσ νήσου πηλώδουσ οὔσησ ἔτι καὶ μαλακῆσ, τὸν ἥλιον ἀναξηράναντα τὴν πολλὴν ὑγρότητα ζωογονῆσαι τὴν γῆν, καὶ γενέσθαι τοὺσ κληθέντασ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ Ἡλιάδασ, ἑπτὰ τὸν ἀριθμόν, καὶ ἄλλουσ ὁμοίωσ λαοὺσ αὐτόχθονασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 56 3:2)
  • διὸ καί φασι τοὺσ μὲν Ἡλιάδασ διὰ τὴν σπουδὴν ἐπιλαθομένουσ ἐνεγκεῖν πῦρ ἐπιθεῖναι τὰ θύματα, τὸν δὲ τότε βασιλεύοντα τῶν Ἀθηναίων Κέκροπα ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ θῦσαι ὕστερον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 56 6:1)
  • Ἡλιάδασ μὲν δὴ λέγεται πενθούσασ τὸν ἀδελφὸν τελευτώσασ αἰγείρων ἀλλάξασθαι φύσιν καὶ τὸ δάκρυον αὐτῶν εἰσ ἤλεκτρον παγῆναι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:4)
  • περὶ ὧν ἐροῦμεν ἐφ’ ὅσον πρὸσ ἱστορίαν χρήσιμον, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ τῶν μυθευομένων ἢ κατεψευσμένων ἄλλωσ ἐᾶν δεῖ, οἱο͂ν τὰ περὶ Φαέθοντα καὶ τὰσ Ἡλιάδασ τὰσ ἀπαιγειρουμένασ περὶ τὸν Ἠριδανόν, τὸν μηδαμοῦ γῆσ ὄντα, πλησίον δὲ τοῦ Πάδου λεγόμενον, καὶ τὰσ Ἠλεκτρίδασ νήσουσ τὰσ πρὸ τοῦ Πάδου καὶ μελεαγρίδασ ἐν αὐταῖσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. of the sun

Related

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

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