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τελεστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελεστήριον τελεστήριου

Structure: τελεστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: tele/w 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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