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πομπεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πομπεῖον πομπεῖου

Structure: πομπει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pomph/

Sense

  1. any vessel employed in solemn processions
  2. a storehouse for such vessels

Declension

Second 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

  • ὅτε δ’ ὁ σῖτοσ ἐπετιμήθη <τὸ> πρότερον καὶ ἐγένετο ἑκκαίδεκα δραχμῶν, εἰσαγαγόντεσ πλείουσ ἢ μυρίουσ μεδίμνουσ πυρῶν διεμετρήσαμεν ὑμῖν τῆσ καθεστηκυίασ τιμῆσ, πέντε δραχμῶν τὸν μέδιμνον, καὶ ταῦτα πάντεσ ἴστε ἐν τῷ πομπείῳ διαμετρούμενοι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 56:1)
  • ἦν δ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ γραπτὴ εἰκὼν ἐν τῷ Πομπείῳ. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 47:2)
  • Σωκράτην δὲ χαλκῇ εἰκόνι ἐτίμησαν, ἣν ἔθεσαν ἐν τῷ πομπείῳ, Λυσίππου ταύτην ἐργασαμένου. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. e'. SWKRATHS 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. any vessel employed in solemn processions

Related

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

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