Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πομπεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πομπεία

Structure: πομπει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pompeu/w

Sense

  1. a leading in procession
  2. jeering, ribaldry, who took part in the processions

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

  • ὑμεῖσ δ’ εἰσ τοῦτ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, προῆχθ’ εὐηθείασ καὶ ῥᾳθυμίασ ὥστ’ οὐδὲ τοιαῦτ’ ἔχοντεσ παραδείγματα ταῦτα μιμεῖσθε, ἀλλ’ Ἀνδροτίων ὑμῖν πομπείων ἐπισκευαστήσ, Ἀνδροτίων, ὦ γῆ καὶ θεοί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 95:1)
  • ἰδὼν δ’ ἠδικηκότα κοινῇ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ περὶ τὴν εἴσπραξιν τῶν εἰσφορῶν καὶ περὶ τὴν ποίησιν τῶν πομπείων, καὶ χρήματα πολλὰ τῆσ θεοῦ καὶ τῶν ἐπωνύμων καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἔχοντα καὶ οὐκ ἀποδιδόντα, ἦλθον ἐπ’ αὐτὸν μετ’ Εὐκτήμονοσ, ἡγούμενοσ ἁρμόττοντ’ εἰληφέναι καιρὸν τοῦ βοηθῆσαί θ’ ἅμα τῇ πόλει καὶ τιμωρίαν ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐπεπόνθειν λαβεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 10:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ δ’ εἰσ τοσοῦτον, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, προῆχθ’ εὐηθείασ καὶ ῥᾳθυμίασ ὥστ’ οὐδὲ τοιαῦτ’ ἔχοντεσ παραδείγματα ταῦτα μιμεῖσθε, ἀλλ’ Ἀνδροτίων ὑμῖν πομπείων ἐπισκευαστήσ, Ἀνδροτίων, ὦ γῆ καὶ θεοί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 257:1)

Synonyms

  1. a leading in procession

Related

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

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