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μυσταγωγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυσταγωγία

Structure: μυσταγωγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. initiation into the mysteries

Declension

First 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

  • ἦν δέ τισ ἑταῖροσ τοῦ Δίωνοσ ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν, Κάλλιπποσ, ὅν φησιν ὁ Πλάτων οὐκ ἀπὸ παιδείασ, ἀλλ’ ἐκ μυσταγωγιῶν καὶ τῆσ περιτρεχούσησ ἑταιρείασ γνώριμον αὐτῷ γενέσθαι καὶ συνήθη, μετασχὼν δὲ τῆσ στρατείασ καὶ τιμώμενοσ, ὥστε καὶ συνεισελθεῖν εἰσ τὰσ Συρακούσασ πρῶτοσ τῶν ἑταίρων ἁπάντων, ἐστεφανωμένοσ καὶ λαμπρὸσ ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσι καὶ διάσημοσ. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 54 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. initiation into the mysteries

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

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