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θειασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θειασμός θειασμοῦ

Structure: θειασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. practice of divination

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

  • ὄψεισ τε γὰρ οὐκ εἰωθυῖαι ἐφαίνοντο πολλοῖσ, καὶ φωναὶ ἠκούοντο οὐδενὸσ ὄντοσ τοῦ φθεγγομένου, γοναί τ’ ἀνθρώπων καὶ βοσκημάτων πολὺ ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἐκβεβηκυῖαι εἰσ τὸ ἄπιστόν τε καὶ τερατῶδεσ ἐφέροντο, χρησμοί τ’ ᾔδοντο ἐν πολλοῖσ χωρίοισ, καὶ θειασμοῖσ κάτοχοι γυναῖκεσ οἰκτρὰσ ἐμαντεύοντο καὶ δεινὰσ τῇ πόλει τύχασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 68 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. practice of divination

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

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