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θεσμοφόριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεσμοφόριον θεσμοφόριου

Structure: θεσμοφορι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from qesmofo/ria

Sense

  1. the temple of Demeter

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

  • ἢ ὅτι ταῖσ αἰχμαλώτοισ, ἃσ ἦγεν ἐκ Τροίασ Ἀγαμέμνων, ἐνταῦθα συνέβη θεσμοφόρια θύειν, πλοῦ δὲ φανέντοσ ἐξαίφνησ ἀνήχθησαν ἀτελῆ τὴν θυσίαν καταλιποῦσαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 31 1:1)
  • αἰχμαλώτοισ, ἃσ ἦγεν ἐκ Τροίασ Ἀγαμέμνων, ἐνταῦθα θεσμοφόρια θύειν πλοῦ δὲ φανέντοσ ἐξαίφνησ συνέβη ἀνήχθησαν ἀτελῆ τὴν θυσίαν καταλιποῦσαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 31 2:1)
  • συνέβη θεσμοφόρια θύειν, πλοῦ δὲ φανέντοσ, ἐμβαίνοντεσ εἰσ τὰ πλοῖα καὶ πόρρω τῆσ γῆσ ἐπανάγοντεσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 32 1:1)
  • καὶ τῆσ Δήμητροσ τελετῆσ πέρι, τὴν οἱ Ἕλληνεσ θεσμοφόρια καλέουσι, καὶ ταύτησ μοι πέρι εὔστομα κείσθω, πλὴν ὅσον αὐτῆσ ὁσίη ἐστὶ λέγειν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 171 3:1)
  • Δήμητροσ δὲ Θεσμοφόρου Δρυμαίοισ ἱερόν ἐστιν ἀρχαῖον, καὶ ἄγαλμα ὀρθὸν λίθου πεποίηται, καὶ αὐτῇ Θεσμοφόρια ἑορτὴν ἄγουσιν ἐπέτειον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. the temple of Demeter

Related

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

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