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ἰρήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰρήν ἰρένος

Structure: ἰρην (Stem)

Etym.: ionic for ei)rh/n.

Sense

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

  • καὶ αὐτίκα ὑγιέα γενομένην ὁ ἀνὴρ ἐσ τὴν ἱρὴν πόλιν ἔπεμπε, σὺν δὲ οἱ καὶ χρὴματα καὶ στρατιὴν πολλήν, τοὺσ μὲν οἰκοδομέειν, τοὺσ δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἀσφαλέοσ εἵνεκα . (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 19:3)
  • Κομβάβοσ μέν νυν τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἀσφαλέα ὁδὸν ἤνυεν ἀπικόμενοι δὲ ἐσ τὴν ἱρὴν πόλιν σπουδῇ τὸν νηὸν οἰκοδόμεον καὶ σφίσι τρία ἔτεα ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ ἐξεγένετο, ἐν τοῖσι ἀπέβαινε τάπερ ὁ Κομβάβοσ ὀρρώδεεν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 21:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἡ ἀγγελίη ἐσ τὴν ἱρὴν· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 24:1)
  • ἀνὴρ εὖτ’ ἂν ἐσ τὴν ἱρὴν πόλιν πρῶτον ἀπικνέηται,^ κεφαλὴν μὲν ὅδε καὶ ὀφρύασ ἐξύρατο, μετὰ δὲ ἱρεύσασ ὀί̈ν τὰ μὲν ἄλλα κρεουργέει τε καὶ εὐωχέεται, τὸ δὲ νάκοσ χαμαὶ θέμενοσ ἐπὶ τούτου ἐσ γόνυ ἕζεται, πόδασ δὲ καὶ κεφαλὴν τοῦ κτήνεοσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑωυτοῦ κεφαλὴν ἀναλαμβάνει· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 55:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ τὰ ἐόντα ἐπεδείκνυν, οὕτω δὴ ἐκ τῶν παρεόντων ἐπισιτισάμενοι ἀνήγοντο, καὶ ὁρμίζονται πρὸσ ἄκρῃ, ἥντινα οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ἱρὴν Ἡλίου ἦγον· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 28 9:1)

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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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