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τερατεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τερατεία

Structure: τερατει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from terateu/omai

Sense

  1. a talking marvels, jugglery

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

  • τερατεία δὲ ἂν ἔδοξεν οἶμαι τὸ ῥηθησόμενον, εἰ μὴ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ θεασαμένοισ ἱστόρητο καὶ τὰ ἐπακολουθήσαντα πάθη τῶν σημείων ἦν ἄξια· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 336:1)
  • περὶ τούτων οὔτε μάντεων οὔτε τερατειῶν χρεία. (Polybius, Histories, book 36, ii. bellum macedonicum 10:2)
  • τίνι γὰρ ἂν ἄλλῳ δικαιότερον προσεπολέμει γόησ ἄνθρωποσ καὶ τερατείᾳ φίλοσ, ἀληθείᾳ δὲ ἔχθιστοσ, ἢ Ἐπικούρῳ ἀνδρὶ τὴν φύσιν τῶν πραγμάτων καθεωρακότι καὶ μόνῳ τὴν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἀλήθειαν εἰδότι; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:8)
  • ἓν δὲ εὐτυχοῦμεν οἱ μηδὲν ἀδικοῦντεσ, ὅτι πρὸσ τῇ τερατείᾳ τοῦ τρόπου καὶ τῇ τῶν ὀνομάτων συνθέσει νοῦν οὐκ ἔχει. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1534)

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

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