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τελεστήριον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: telestērion

Principal Part: τελεστήριον τελεστήριου

Structure: τελεστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: τελέω III

Sense

  1. a place for initiation
  2. a thank-offering for success

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τελεστήριον τελεστηρίω τελεστήρια
Genitive τελεστηρίου τελεστηρίοιν τελεστηρίων
Dative τελεστηρίῳ τελεστηρίοιν τελεστηρίοις
Accusative τελεστήριον τελεστηρίω τελεστήρια
Vocative τελεστήριον τελεστηρίω τελεστήρια

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

  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ ἑκατόμπεδον Παρθενῶνα Καλλικράτης εἰργάζετο καὶ Ἰκτῖνος, τὸ δ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τελεστήριον ἤρξατο μὲν Κόροιβος οἰκοδομεῖν, καὶ τοὺς ἐπ ἐδάφους κίονας ἔθηκεν οὗτος καὶ τοῖς ἐπιστυλίοις ἐπέζευξεν: (Plutarch, , chapter 13 4:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ Φλυῆσι τελεστήριον, ὅπερ ἦν Λυκομιδῶν κοινόν, ἐμπρησθὲν ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων αὐτὸς ἐπεσκεύασε καὶ γραφαῖς ἐκόσμησεν, ὡς Σιμωνίδης ἱστόρηκεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 1 3:2)
  • "Ἀλκιβιάδης δὲ καὶ Θεόδωρος τελεστήριον ἐποίησαν τὸ Πολυτίωνος συμπόσιον, ἀπομιμούμενοι δᾳδουχίας καὶ ἱεροφαντίας. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 8:6)
  • Ζεῦ πατρῷε καὶ Ἥλιε καὶ πάντες θεοί, δέχεσθε τάδε καὶ τελεστήρια πολλῶν καὶ καλῶν πράξεων καὶ χαριστήρια ὅτι ἐσημαίνετέ μοι καὶ ἐν ἱεροῖς καὶ ἐν οὐρανίοις σημείοις καὶ ἐν οἰωνοῖς καὶ ἐν φήμαις ἅ τ ἐχρῆν ποιεῖν καὶ ἃ οὐκ ἐχρῆν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 7 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a place for initiation

Similar forms

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

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