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στεφανίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεφανίτης στεφανίτου

Structure: στεφανιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from ste/fanos

Sense

  1. of a crown, in which the prize was a crown

Declension

First 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

  • οἰέσθ’ ἄν ποτε, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐθελῆσαί τινα ἐπασκεῖν εἰσ τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ἢ ἄλλον τινὰ τῶν στεφανιτῶν ἀγώνων, παγκράτιον ἢ καὶ ἄλλο τι τῶν βαρυτέρων ἄθλων, εἰ ὁ στέφανοσ ἐδίδοτο μὴ τῷ κρατίστῳ, ἀλλὰ τῷ διαπραξαμένῳ; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1793)
  • ἄλλο δέ, ἂν ὦσιν οἱ πρόγονοι ὀνομαστοί, οἱο͂ν ἀπὸ στρατηγίασ, ἀπὸ στεφανιτῶν ἀγώνων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 87:9)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ τῶν στεφανιτῶν οἶμαι παραπλησίωσ ἔχει τοῖσ τῶν πολέμων· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 141:4)
  • φέρε δὴ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν στεφανιτῶν ἀγώνων σκεψώμεθα, οἱο͂ν τὸν Δωριέα τὸν Ῥόδιον καὶ Γλαῦκον τὸν Καρύστιον καὶ Μίλωνα δὴ καὶ Πολυδάμαντα, καὶ πάντασ ὧν εἰκόνεσ χαλκαῖ, πότερον θρυπτομένουσ καὶ παροινοῦντασ καὶ ταὐτὰ ταῖσ ὀρχηστρίσι στρεφομένουσ ἐστεφάνουν οἱ τῷ Διὶ τῷ Ὀλυμπίῳ τὸν ἀγῶνα κοσμοῦντεσ, ἢ καρτερίαν θαυμαστήν τινα καὶ ῥώμην ὁμοῦ ψυχῆσ τε καὶ σώματοσ παρασχομένουσ, ἃ τὰσ μεγίστασ καὶ βεβαιοτάτασ ἡδονὰσ καὶ αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ ἔχουσι καὶ τοῖσ συνειδόσι προξενεῖ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:5)

Synonyms

  1. of a crown

Related

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

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