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θέσπισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέσπισμα θέσπισματος

Structure: θεσπισματ (Stem)

Etym.: qespi/zw

Sense

  1. oracular sayings

Declension

Third 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

  • κλύοισ ἂν ἤδη τῶν ἐμῶν θεσπισμάτων. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:27)
  • ὦ Λοξία μαντεῖε, σῶν θεσπισμάτων. (Euripides, episode, iambic 5:1)
  • στρατεύονται δὲ ἐπεάν σφεασ ὁ θεὸσ οὗτοσ κελεύῃ διὰ θεσπισμάτων, καὶ τῇ ἂν κελεύῃ, ἐκεῖσε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 29 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. oracular sayings

Related

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

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