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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

  • "τὰ δ’ ἄλλα χρηστήρια, τὸ ἐν Διδύμοισ καὶ τὸ ἐν Κλάρῳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖσ, ἔχουσι τὸν πατέρα τὸν Ἀπόλλω χρησμῳδοῦντα, ἢ ψευδεῖσ εἰσιν οἱ νῦν ἐκπίπτοντεσ ἐκεῖ χρησμοί; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 43:13)
  • ὦ σύγγον’, ἐλθὼν λαὸν εἰσ αὐτόχθονα κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ‐ οἶσθα γὰρ θεᾶσ πόλιν ‐ λαβὼν βρέφοσ νεογνὸν ἐκ κοίλησ πέτρασ αὐτῷ σὺν ἄγγει σπαργάνοισί θ’ οἷσ ἔχει ἔνεγκε Δελφῶν τἀμὰ πρὸσ χρηστήρια, καὶ θὲσ πρὸσ αὐταῖσ εἰσόδοισ δόμων ἐμῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:8)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξέπληξάσ μ’, ὄμμα συγκλῄσασα σὸν δακρύοισ θ’ ὑγράνασ’ εὐγενῆ παρηίδα, ὡσ εἶδεσ ἁγνὰ Λοξίου χρηστήρια. (Euripides, Ion, episode4)
  • σὺν ἀνδρὶ δ’ ἥκεισ ἢ μόνη χρηστήρια; (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:37)
  • τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ γ’ ἐκμαθὼν χρηστήρια. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees31)

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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