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ἱκέτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκέτις ἱκέτιδος

Structure: ἱκετιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of i(ke/ths, Hdt., Soph., etc.

Sense

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱκέτις ἱκέτιδε ἱκέτιδες
Genitive ἱκέτιδος ἱκετίδοιν ἱκετίδων
Dative ἱκέτιδι ἱκετίδοιν ἱκέτισιν*
Accusative ἱκέτιδα ἱκέτιδε ἱκέτιδας
Vocative ἱκέτι ἱκέτιδε ἱκέτιδες

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἴθι ναούσ, ἴθι πρὸσ βωμούσ, ἵζ’ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἱκέτισ γονάτων, κήρυσσε θεοὺσ τούσ τ’ οὐρανίδασ τούσ θ’ ὑπὸ γαῖαν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 2:3)
  • ἡ δὲ διασωθεῖσα ἐφύλαξε τὴν τῶν Παμβοιωτίων ἑορτήν, καὶ τότε εἰσ Κορώνειαν ἐλθοῦσα ἱκέτισ καθέζεται ἐπὶ τῷ βωμῷ τῆσ Ἰτωνίασ Ἀθηνᾶσ καὶ τῶν μνηστήρων τὴν παρανομίαν διηγεῖτο, τό τε ἑκάστου ὄνομα καὶ τὴν πατρίδα σημαίνουσα. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 4 4:4)
  • ἀντιάζω σ’ ἱκέτισ ἐξειπεῖν τάδε. (Euripides, Ion, episode14)
  • τὸν πάλαι δ’ ἐγὼ πόσιν τιμῶσα Πρωτέωσ μνῆμα προσπίτνω τόδε ἱκέτισ, ἵν’ ἀνδρὶ τἀμὰ διασῴσῃ λέχη, ὡσ, εἰ καθ’ Ἑλλάδ’ ὄνομα δυσκλεὲσ φέρω, μή μοι τὸ σῶμά γ’ ἐνθάδ’ αἰσχύνην ὄφλῃ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:14)
  • ὦ παρθέν’, ἱκέτισ ἀμφὶ σὸν πίτνω γόνυ καὶ προσκαθίζω θᾶκον οὐκ εὐδαίμονα ὑπέρ τ’ ἐμαυτῆσ τοῦδέ θ’, ὃν μόλισ ποτὲ λαβοῦσ’ ἐπ’ ἀκμῆσ εἰμι κατθανόντ’ ἰδεῖν· (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 8:1)

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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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