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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hél.lɛː.sin/ → /ˈel.li.sin/ → /ˈe.li.sin/
Noun
Ἕλλησῐν • (Héllēsin) n
- Alternative form of Ἕλλησῐ (Héllēsi)
460 BCE – 395 BCE,
Thucydides,
History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1:
- κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.
- kínēsis gàr haútē megístē dḕ toîs Héllēsin egéneto kaì mérei tinì tôn barbárōn, hōs dè eipeîn kaì epì pleîston anthrṓpōn.
- this movement in fact turned out to be the greatest for the Hellenes, and for a certain part of the barbarian world, and so to speak even for most of mankind.