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χρηστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηστήριον χρηστήριου

Structure: χρηστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xra/w3

Sense

  1. an oracle
  2. the seat of an oracle
  3. the answer of an oracle, oracular response
  4. an offering for the oracle, a sacrificial victim, a victim, sacrifice

Declension

Second 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

  • "οἱ κατάρατοι δὲ οὗτοι μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ χρηστήριον, οἶμαι, καὶ ἄδυτον ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ μηχανήσονται, διότι καὶ Πρωτεὺσ ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ Διόσ, ὁ προπάτωρ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ, μαντικὸσ ἦν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:87)
  • ταῦτα πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ στρέφοντεσ καὶ κυκῶντεσ μαντεῖον συστήσασθαι καὶ χρηστήριον ἐβουλεύοντο· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 8:2)
  • εἶτα θαυμάζεισ εἰ ἐπὶ μέγα ἤρθη τὸ χρηστήριον, ὁρῶν τὰσ ἐρωτήσεισ τῶν προσιόντων συνετὰσ καὶ πεπαιδευμένασ ; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:5)
  • ἤδη δὲ πολλῶν ἐπὶ πολλοῖσ ἐπεισρεόντων καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ αὐτῶν θλιβομένησ ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν ἐπὶ τὸ χρηστήριον ἀφικνουμένων καὶ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια διαρκῆ μὴ ἐχούσησ, ἐπινοεῖ τοὺσ νυκτερινοὺσ καλουμένουσ χρησμούσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:1)
  • καὶ ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ γῇ, βαθεῖ λιμῷ ἀεὶ συνῆμεν ἄν, τὸ δ’ ἱερὸν καὶ ὁ Πύθιοσ καὶ τὸ χρηστήριον καὶ οἱ θύοντεσ καὶ οἱ εὐσεβοῦντεσ, ταῦτα Δελφῶν τὰ πεδία, ταῦτα ἡ πρόσοδοσ, ἐντεῦθεν ἡ εὐπορία, ἐντεῦθεν αἱ τροφαὶ ‐ χρὴ γὰρ τἀληθῆ πρόσ γε ἡμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ λέγειν ‐ καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ποιητῶν, ἄσπαρτα ἡμῖν καὶ ἀνήροτα φύεται τὰ πάντα ’ὑπὸ γεωργῷ τῷ θεῷ, ὃσ οὐ μόνον τὰ παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἀγαθὰ γιγνόμενα παρέχει, ἀλλ’ εἴ τι ἐν Φρυξὶν ἢ Λυδοῖσ ἢ Πέρσαισ ἢ Ἀσσυρίοισ ἢ Φοίνιξιν ἢ Ἰταλιώταισ ἢ Ὑπερβορέοισ αὐτοῖσ, πάντα ἐσ Δελφοὺσ ἀφικνεῖται. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. an oracle

  2. the seat of an oracle

  3. the answer of an oracle

  4. an offering for the oracle

Related

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

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