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ἱκεσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκεσία

Structure: ἱκεσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i(ke/ths

Sense

  1. the prayer of a suppliant, entreaties

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱκεσία ἱκεσίᾱ ἱκεσίαι
Genitive ἱκεσίᾱς ἱκεσίαιν ἱκεσιῶν
Dative ἱκεσίᾱͅ ἱκεσίαιν ἱκεσίαις
Accusative ἱκεσίᾱν ἱκεσίᾱ ἱκεσίᾱς
Vocative ἱκεσίᾱ ἱκεσίᾱ ἱκεσίαι

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

  • ἴδοιτο δῆτ’ ἄνατον φυγὰν ἱκεσία Θέμισ Διὸσ κλαρίου. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • πολλὴ δ’ ἡ ἱκεσία δι’ ἀφθονίαν κακῶν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 5:3)
  • τί γὰρ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἦλθον ἱκεσίᾳ χερί; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode18)
  • Σελεύκου δὲ θαυμάσαντοσ εἴ τινα μὴ δύναιτο πεῖσαι Σέλευκοσ ὁ τῆσ Ἀσίασ βασιλεύσ, ἐπὶ γάμῳ τοιοῦδε παιδόσ, ἱκεσίᾳ τε καὶ χρήμασι καὶ δωρεαῖσ καὶ ὅλῃ τῇ τοσῇδε βασιλείᾳ, περιιούσῃ μὲν ἐσ τόνδε τὸν κάμνοντα βασιλέα, δοθησομένῃ δὲ καὶ νῦν ἀντὶ τῆσ σωτηρίασ εἰ ἤδη τισ ἐθέλοι, καὶ μόνον ἀξιοῦντοσ μαθεῖν τίσ ἔστι τὸ γύναιον, ὁ Ἐρασίστρατοσ ἔφη· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 2:1)
  • ἐπέλαβε μέντοι καὶ Ἆγιν μετάνοια ὕστερον, καὶ ‐ ἔφερον γὰρ τηνικαῦτα οἴκαδε ἐξ Ἀρκαδίασ αὐτὸν νοσοῦντα ‐ ὡσ ἐγίνετο ἐν Ἡραίᾳ, καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ μάρτυρασ ἐποιεῖτο ἦ μὴν Λεωτυχίδην ἑαυτοῦ παῖδα ἡγεῖσθαι καί σφισι σὺν ἱκεσίᾳ τε καὶ δακρύοισ ἐπέσκηπτε πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ταῦτα ἀπαγγέλλειν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. the prayer of a suppliant

Related

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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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