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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

  • 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. 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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