Greek proper noun
Ἕλλην
Ἕλλην, -ηνος, ὁ
Ἕλλην is a Greek proper noun. In the 3 analysed lines it was read in, it means “by Greeks” (once), “for the Greeks” (once) and “of the Greeks” (once).
In the texts
Each line as the reader shows it: every word in its case colour with its meaning underneath, and arcs from Ἕλλην to the words it goes with.
κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.
For this was indeed the greatest movement for the Greeks and a certain part of the barbarians, and, one might say, over most of mankind.
Ἕλλησιν: tells how, where or when about ἐγένετο.
ἀναβαίνει οὖν ὁ Κῦρος λαβὼν Τισσαφέρνην ὡς φίλον, καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἔχων ὁπλίτας ἀνέβη τριακοσίους, ἄρχοντα δὲ αὐτῶν Ξενίαν Παρράσιον.
Cyrus therefore goes up, taking Tissaphernes as a friend, and he went up having three hundred hoplites of the Greeks, and Xenia the Parrhasian as their commander.
Ἑλλήνων: goes with ὁπλίτας (“of …”).
…γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα…
This is the publication of the history of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, in order that neither the things that came into being from humans may become faded by time, nor great and wondrous deeds, some by Greeks and some by barbarians, may become inglorious, and also (to explain) the other things and for what reason they waged war against one another.
Ἕλλησι: tells how, where or when about ἀποδεχθέντα.
Forms
Every form of the word in these texts, with what it is.
| Form | Grammar | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Ἑλλήνων | Genitive · Plural · Masculine | 1 |
| Ἕλλησι | Dative · Plural · Masculine | 1 |
| Ἕλλησιν | Dative · Plural · Masculine | 1 |
Words it goes with
Joined to Ἕλλην by an arc in these lines, most often first.
Grammar
- About the genitiveThe Greek genitive covers “of” and “from”: possession, the whole a part belongs to, prepositions and the genitive absolute. Real lines from John and Aesop.
- About the dativeThe Greek dative marks to whom or for whom, and also by what means and where. Its uses and endings, with real lines from Aesop, John and Homer.