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ἱκέτευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκέτευμα ἱκέτευματος

Structure: ἱκετευματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a mode of supplication

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

  • ἐν δὲ Πέρσαισ τῶν ἱκετευμάτων μέγιστον ἦν καὶ ἀπαραίτητον, εἰ πῦρ λαβὼν ἱκετεύων καὶ ἐν ποταμῷ βεβηκὼσ ἀπειλοίη μὴ τυχὼν τὸ πῦρ, εἰσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἀφήσειν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 14 7:1)
  • ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν Φθίαν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ βασιλέωσ λέγουσιν ὑποθέσθαι τῷ Θεμιστοκλεῖ τὸ ἱκέτευμα τοῦτο καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑστίαν καθίσαι μετ’ αὐτοῦ· (Plutarch, , chapter 24 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mode of supplication

Similar forms

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

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