νέκυια
First declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
νέκυια
Structure:
νεκυι
(Stem)
+
ᾱ
(Ending)
Sense
- by which ghosts were called up and questioned
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.
- Τὰ δ’ οὖν τοῦ κυνικοῦ βιβλία ἐστὶ δεκατρία, Νέκυια. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. h'. MENIPPOS 3:5)
- καὶ ὁ Σώπατροσ δέ, οὗ τὰ νῦν μέμνησαι, ἐν Νεκυίᾳ μνημονεύει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 513)
- ἀειζώουσα Νεκυία ἤσκημαι πάσησ ἠρίον ἡλικίησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7922)
- καὶ Ὀδυσσείασ ἐν Νεκυίᾳ δικάζοντα χρυσοῦν σκῆπτρον ἔχοντα πεποίηκε τὸν Μίνων, οὐ τὸν Ῥαδάμανθυν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 39:5)
- "ὅσασ ἐν Νεκυίᾳ κατωνόμακεν, ἡ μὲν Ἐλπήνοροσ οὔπω καταμεμιγμένη ταῖσ ἐν Αἵδου διὰ τὸ μὴ τεθάφθαι τὸν νεκρὸν ὥσπερ ἐν μεθορίοισ πλανᾶται· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 15:1)
- "ἂν οὖν ταύτασ ὑπεξελόμενοσ, ὦ Λαμπρία, τὰσ ἄλλασ διαριθμῇσ, αὐτὸ συμβαίνει, τὴν Αἰάντοσ εἰκοστὴν εἰσ ὄψιν ἀφῖχθαι τοῦ Ὀδυσσέωσ καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο παίζειν τὸν Πλάτωνα τῇ Ὁμηρικῇ Νεκυίᾳ προσαναχρωννύμενον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 15:3)
Synonyms
-
by which ghosts were called up and questioned
- νεκυϊσμός (a magical rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future)
