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ἱεροφάντης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱεροφάντης

Structure: ἱεροφαντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. a hierophant, one who teaches the rites of sacrifice and worship, Pontifex Maximus

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱεροφάντης ἱεροφάντᾱ ἱεροφάνται
Genitive ἱεροφάντου ἱεροφάνταιν ἱεροφαντῶν
Dative ἱεροφάντῃ ἱεροφάνταιν ἱεροφάνταις
Accusative ἱεροφάντην ἱεροφάντᾱ ἱεροφάντᾱς
Vocative ἱεροφάντα ἱεροφάντᾱ ἱεροφάνται

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

  • εἶτ’ εὐθὺσ ἐντυγχάνω δᾳδούχῳ τε καὶ ἱεροφάντῃ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀρρητοποιοῖσ Δεινίαν σύρουσιν ἄγδην ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχήν, ἔγκλημα ἐπάγοντασ ὅτι ὠνόμαζεν αὐτούσ, καὶ ταῦτα εὖ εἰδὼσ ὅτι ἐξ οὗπερ ὡσιώθησαν, ἀνώνυμοί τέ εἰσι καὶ οὐκέτι ὀνομαστοὶ ὡσ ἂν ἱερώνυμοι ἤδη γεγενημένοι. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 9:6)
  • Ὁ δ’ οὖν Θεόδωροσ προσκαθίσασ ποτὲ Εὐρυκλείδῃ τῷ ἱεροφάντῃ, "λέγε μοι," ἔφη, "Εὐρυκλείδη, τίνεσ εἰσὶν οἱ ἀσεβοῦντεσ περὶ τὰ μυστήρια. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 37:1)
  • ἀποροῦντι οὖν αὐτῷ πρεσβύτην ἄνδρα, ἱεροφάντῃ μάλιστα εἰκασμένον, νύκτωρ φασὶν ἐπιστάντα εἰπεῖν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 10:1)
  • τούτου μνημονεύει Νικόστρατοσ ἐν Ιἑροφάντῃ καὶ ὁ ὀψοδαίδαλοσ Ἀρχέστρατοσ, οὗ κατὰ καιρὸν τὸ μαρτύριον παραθήσομαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 74 5:2)

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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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